Review of Monster

Monster is masterfully written, but its slow pacing makes it an anime that is not for everyone. Look, it's really well written, so I'll let the ones who loved this anime to point out exactly why. Pay attention on what other reviewers are saying about the plot, not me. I'm here more to rant about how painful it felt watching the anime. I couldn't get invested in the story, and often I couldn't care for the characters and their motivations. Ironically enough, it felt great reflecting about the episodes after I was done watching all 74 episodes! So I'm in a love-hate relationship with Monster, that Idon't want to rewatch the show, but want to keep thinking about the ideas and story presented by it.

That's probably just an intuition I have that it was well written, had a great world to be explored, memorable themes and characters. But watching it? Very annoying, would recommend watching it in 3x speed.

Nonetheless, I can respect a well made anime, so give it a try. Might become your favorite show. Because this is top tier, even if my zoomer brain can't hold attention span to enjoy watching it. You might also hate watching it, but if you look back at what you watched, does it feel like an interesting world? Monster is an interesting world to think about, but not to watch.

No other anime has ever made me feel this weird love-hate relationship with it, so just putting it out here.

Have a lovely day.