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A review by 600bars
Monster: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 4 by Naoki Urasawa
3.0
Nice to be back to reading a physical book. This one started to make sense out of the fragments of the earlier installment. I was confused as to who Robert was bc I forgot about him. Or maybe he hadn't already been introduced? This section didn’t have Nina and Tenma in it very much, we mostly had this dude Richard who was plagued with guilt over having killed someone on duty. The person he killed was at the same orphanage as Johan back in the day. Robert ends up suicided by Johan. Richard was being treated by a psychoanalyst whose name I can’t remember, who mentored Rudi in college (Rudi and Tenma were also classmates). Now the 2 psychologists (Rudi and Dr. whatever) want to clear Tenma’s name and also prevent him from killing Johan so he doesn’t become morally tainted or whatever. There is also this whole subplot about a very rich man, Herr Schuwald and his illegitimate son and Johan is his personal assistant. Nina seems to be taking classes at the same place Johan is attending. Johan also takes care of a bunch of children and has them playing a russian roulette-esque game where they jump off buildings. There was also a brief aside where Tenma helps out at a hospital for undocumented immigrants that is being run by a 17 yo vietnamese girl. How is Tenma always falling into these situations?
I was confused a bit about the Madame character who had assumed the identity of Karl’s mother. She’s dead now so hopefully I don’t have to concern myself with this?
Things are starting to make slightly more sense I guess, but what I don’t get is how are all these people in the same place (Johan Tenma Nina) and they haven’t run into each other yet???
What is going to happen with the kids book that affected Johan so much?
Lunge trying to put himself in the mind of Tenma was interesting. He needs to step away from the case in order to see the situation clearly because rn he is too zoomed in. It’s like when you look at a super zoomed in photo and think it’s blades of grass when actually it’s a photo of a green sweater.
Yeah even tho I’m getting back into my stride I didn’t enjoy this volume as much as the first one because it was getting away from the characters I care about the most.
I was confused a bit about the Madame character who had assumed the identity of Karl’s mother. She’s dead now so hopefully I don’t have to concern myself with this?
Things are starting to make slightly more sense I guess, but what I don’t get is how are all these people in the same place (Johan Tenma Nina) and they haven’t run into each other yet???
What is going to happen with the kids book that affected Johan so much?
Lunge trying to put himself in the mind of Tenma was interesting. He needs to step away from the case in order to see the situation clearly because rn he is too zoomed in. It’s like when you look at a super zoomed in photo and think it’s blades of grass when actually it’s a photo of a green sweater.
Yeah even tho I’m getting back into my stride I didn’t enjoy this volume as much as the first one because it was getting away from the characters I care about the most.