Review of Monster

DON'T WATCH THE ANIME "MONSTER". It's a Thriller, set in Europe, a good portion of it in Germany, where a brilliant Japanese surgeon becomes embroiled in an accusation of a murder he didn't commit.... sound trite? Well, it isn't, and the story gets deeper and deeper with each episode. But what I find most valuable is the completely different pace of storytelling than is done today. Today, series want to force you to "Bing watch" - you know, the viewer has little time, the series - as a product - has a small window of exposure and recall. It must be designed to attract and screw the viewerright away. You have to want after watching an episode just now, to watch the next one - otherwise you won't last.

Today - I feel that more than before - stories are designed for the viewer's attention. It used to be that the spectrum could be shifted toward story development. This is (I think) the result of a birth failure in pop culture.

In any case. Like the old Star Treks, "Monster" is different.
I personally screwed around with it three times before I finally caught the bug. That's one.
I watched one/two episodes per day. NOTHING was pulling me further.

I dosed off the story like a connoisseur savors wine. Because that's what it's about. About post-war human experimentation. About unexplained murders. About manipulation. About betrayal and forgiveness. About several characters whose fates are intertwined around the axis of conflict of Dr. Tenma seeking exoneration and then simply the truth and Johan Libert. And all this still has something to do with a certain children's book about a monster who wanted to get a name.... How it all intertwines together, I won't tell you.

But I will tell you why not to watch this anime.

Because it's hard to find something better. Therefore.
For me, every screening with this work resulted in at least a few notes with ideas for writing. It wasn't because I was copying something - no, my brain went into some kind of strange "zen" state with one half registering the story, the other half bouncing off it and creating ideas for my writing, completely unrelated to what I was seeing.

Also, don't watch "Monster" if you don't want to have trouble finding something of equal value later. After conveying the complexity of the psychological portraits of the characters, after presenting - layer after layer - the complexity of the story, after the emotions you experienced together with the characters in the complicated post-Curtain reality (that is, the reality of the world shortly after the fall of the Wall) .... you will be looking for.

Something that will give you a similar atmosphere.

And you won't find it. Just like me, who is writing these words two or three months after watching the anime "Monster" and still can't thinking about it.