i've started reading
Monster, yes it's another manga of naoki urasawa...
i have a weird love/hate relationship with naoki urasawa, on one hand his drawing are amazing, he often sets his manga during historical periods making them feel more realistic and giving them an unique flair, and the manga he writes are basicaly psychological thrillers which are as far as removed from your standard manga (eg: action manga where the character fight and scream for 10/15 chapters or love comedies where 3-4 things with boobs and no personalities orbit around a clueless protagonist) that i can't help but enjoy them
however the guy screws up in several way... the villains in his manga never have a clear motive and are rarely shown that in the end they just feels confusing, the main characters always act more or less like saints,at times his manga devolve into really stupid "good vs evil" affair (mostly noticeable in pluto which is based on a manga for kids and yet somehow ends up having dialogue more childish than the source) and he really can't do endings at all
but anyway... monster, a doctor called tenma (oh, i just noticed he's called like another osamu tezuka character, you sly devil urakawa
) is one of the most skilled surgeon in a hospital so knowing urakawa fixation with tezuka at first i tought it would be like blackjack, but no... tenma is supposed to become the director of the hospital thanks to his skill, however that all change when out of guilty, after the director of the hospital forced him to leave a random nobody to die, he decide to disobey the director order and save the life of a kid instead of the mayor of the city, this in turn draws the ire of the director ruining his career... that's it,until the director mysteriously die and the little kid together with his little sister vanish, however as he gets involved with a witness of a murder he ends up discovering that the murder of the director was done by none other than the kid he saved along a shitload of other murders so he basicaly ended up saving hitler 2.0, this spawn a long game of cat & mouse with tenma trying to find the kid again so that he can kill him while wondering if it's ok to take the life of another or not, saving lot of life's and getting found by the police (who think he's the real culprit) but not captured because of his sanctity like every 5 chapter on average
aaaaannnddd eh it's the same premise of 20th century boy, a random dude gets involved with someone SO EVIL and MYSTERIOUS only he can stop it as long as it will take many many pages, 20th century boy was interessing but the ending was really stupid
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if i remember correctly, the villain get himself killed in a really dumb manner, so another character which they literaly put out of his ass replace him, then somehow for some reason i can't even remember the apocalypse happen and the main character turns into some sort of hippie,then the villain turns into a giant monster
so somehow i can't help but wondering when i'm going to get disappointed
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apparently the kid has a double personality disorder... I CAN ALREADY SEE THE GLIMMER OF STUPIDITY
