Review of Monster

I can not praise this anime enough!! The show is dark and immersive with a tense, engaging story-line. This is psychological thriller at its very best, with realistic characters flawlessly played and manipulated to create this masterpiece. It's set in Germany, when the divide between East and West was still very much present. By combination of atrocities against humanity and the use of children's stories, the author has created an incredible story-scape with many levels of depth and complexities that sometimes only become clear as you dwell on them later, adding to the overall gravity and gorgeously-crafted intrigue. It's most definately a show that requires abrain to retain knowledge to reach a full effect, as the presence of almost all characters, actions and pasts bare great significance elsewhere in the plot.

I particularly love the struggle against a characters morals, backed up by the stories which add a delicious circular motion to this immaculately weaved web of work.

I could rant for a century... Just watch it!