Thoughts on (Naoki Urasawa's) Monster (2004)

Finished first watch on 04/09/2018


-How did Eva get the picture of Johan?
-How did Johan end up running all of these massive criminal organisations?
-What was the objective of the experiments, what were the experiments themselves? All we get told is the wine incident at RRM and the Welcome Home incident at Tri Zaba.
-What was Johan's objective before wanting to commit this mass suicide?
-Why did he want to commit this suicide? To erase his existence from the world?
-Why was Tenma subjected to so much abuse?
-Did people have monsters inside of them? I get that Grimmer found out it was just his inner rage, but why did Johan write that the monster inside him was going to explode?
-What was the aim of Franz Bonaparta/Klaus Poppe's books?
-What caused the riot at 511?




Criticisms
Way too many tangents. These are not plot twists, just useless, random tangents: the guy who lived in the mansion with the pool, tbh the whole story of the university students. Thinking about it, Karl isn't actually that useful for the story but adds depth with Margot Langer, but to go in depth to see that classmate of his getting asked to dance at the disco and stuff - completely useless.
Did we need to know anything about Suk? What was the point of having him so deeply involved and have him on the run etc. Did we need to see so much of Martin?

Dieter was essentially copied and pasted like 4 times. Every town they visited had an outcast, energetic, mischievous but righteous 10 year old boy. Just kinda poor writing.

Lunge did fucking nothing through the entire series. He's introduced as if he's going to be this imposing antagonist but is really pretty useless throughout. I like the fact he came round and ended up being a good guy-ish, but he really achieved very little with his investigations.