Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Vol. 1
by Naoki Urasawa
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Author: Naoki UrasawaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-02-21
ISBN: 1591166411
Number of pages: 224
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
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Book Review: Will probably get better...
Summary: 4 Stars
I thought this deserved some kind of review even though i've only seen the first few episodes of the anime on YouTube.
It's basically about a young, talented japanese brain surgeon who works in Germany trying to build up his career.
When we first see him, it's all going very well as he up for promotion, friends with the director of the hospital, engaged to the directors beautiful daughter and very popular and successful within the hospital.
However, when he is ordered to work on a famous singer rather than on the poor Turkish man who was brought in first, his conscience starts to act up when the Turkish man dies and his wife and young son accost him, shouting at him to give her her husband back.
When he tell his fiancee, she replies that he did the right thing as life is not equal, and the director implies a similar thing later on, talking about the importance of money over saving patients.
This disconcerts Dr Tenma, and when a similar thing happens some time later and he his ordered to help the mayor rather a dieing young boy who was brought in first, he decides to follow his beliefs and help the boy.
Because of this, however, he loses everything.
The director makes it clear that Dr Tenma has no chance of getting any further in life as he would never promote him and would refuse to write a reference if he quit the hospital. His daughter then cruelly gives him back the engagemant ring and goes to flirt with other men.
Because of all this he gets very angry, and when he visits the young boy he saved (who is still unconscious), he starts shouting about how the director doesn't deserve to be alive if he cares more about money than patients.
He then goes out and gets very drunk, but when he wakes up he finds out that the director and two other bad doctors had been murdered and the young boy and his twin sister had run away from the hospital.
But what happened?
I won't spoil the rest, but it gets better as it goes a long.
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