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[timepiececlock]

Monster, episode 1, 10:30 minutes in:

"Not all lives are of equal importance."

::gasp:: Bitch! Dump her, Simon Tam Tenma. She's evil. Dump her, and then run away to wander around train stations looking out for creepy stuff the way you do in the opening credits!

15:40 minutes in:

Dude, Tenma my boy, did you just wake up on the wrong side of the bed today and start noticing things you've never even had a clue about, or what? How could you work for this guy and go out with this woman and not notice how completely inhuman they are?

20:00 minutes in:

This hospital is so fucked up.

I've said it before once, but the ending credits imagery for this show just CREEPS ME THE FUCK OUT. Like, seriously. It's just wrong and disturbing. Not in a gross way, but in a way that makes me want to hide under the covers and never come out.

Clearly I will be needing more than 4 episodes of this show.

Comments

[catystorm.livejournal.com]

I saw the first four or five episodes of the anime, which inspired me to pick up the manga, which freaked me the fuck out and I decided to hold off on watching the rest of the anime until I could forget how the manga ended.

>.> No luck yet.

The ending theme traumatizes me.

Spoilers in white within!

[rasielle.livejournal.com]

I just finished the Monster manga yesterday, and I'd like to flail about discuss it with you, if you don't mind?

Let us speak in white, so that we don't spoil anyone --

SPOILERS, highlight to read: So about that Monster ending. WTF! Ahhh, not only is Tenma living in perpetual fear, but he might have to? Did that nightmare scene with Johan actually happen, or was he telepathically communicating his next Reason to Keeeeel, or is that just Tenma not trusting Johan and the peaceful circumstances? I wanted to say the ending was just as heartwarming as the Trigun anime ending, but dude, those last few pages!

I know that seven times out of ten, a horror movie will try this kind of ending, but for some reason, it's infinitely more effective in Monster than anywhere else. It must be because Johan is really fucking scary. ;_;

On a happier note, my ships became (sorta almost) canon for the first time in years! Eva/Martin, Nina/Tenma ftw! And it isn't Monster if at least one of them isn't dead.