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Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there’s no way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success and instead concentrate on his oath to save peoples’ lives would result in the birth of an abomination. The questions of good and evil now take on a terrifyingly real dimension.
Years later, in Germany during the tumultuous post-reunification period, middle-aged childless couples are being killed one after another. The serial killer’s identity is known. The reasons why he kills are not. Dr. Tenma sets out on a journey to find the killer’s twin sister, who may hold some clues to solving the enigma of the “Monster.”
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5 primary booksNaoki Urasawa's Monster: Kanzenban is a 5-book series with 5 released primary works first released in 1994 with contributions by Naoki Urasawa.
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Wow, what an intro! I'm not usually one for thrillers because the premise tends to supersede characters and themes. That said, this volume strikes the perfect balance between all of those elements. The analysis about what it means to do the “right thing” also really resonated with me for some reason and please let the record show that I used a Ted Lasso bookmark throughout my read that quoted, “Doing the right thing is never the wrong thing.” How positively ironic.
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