Review of Monster

The story I believe without question is truly a masterpiece. Although to the detriment of the anime, overall it was a little to long. Episodes could have been condensed or even omitted completely. The artwork is damn good… the character models are all well done. The animators did a great job in making even the unimportant characters unique …with the exception of a few. The opening and closing music were ok; not much to comment here, the intro was an instrumental while the ending song sounded like an 80-year-old grandmother sung it. **SLIGHT SPOLIER** My only quarrels with the characters themselves are first detective Runge. Whose take on Dr.Tenma’s alleged crime is flawed and highly suspect at best. His lame sense of logic could have been used to pin the crime on almost anybody.

Tenma himself could have been a little more interesting to. Throughout the anime, he's on this self-righteous mission to "slay" the “monster” he made the mistake in saving so many years ago. He spends the majority of the anime fleeing from the cops...at some point he actually had a rock solid way of clearing his name but instead he chooses to continue his search…It would have been better if the storywriters added some conflict in order to give Tenma a choice on whether to continue his search or prove his innocence. After all, isn’t this, what a real person would do? Isn’t that what Tenma’s supposd to be…aside from his gifted medical prowess, a humble average Joe whose trying to do the right thing.