The story begins with Kenzou Tenma, a very successful neurosurgeon who had to operate on a Turkish construction worker but was pulled out of the surgery last minute because he had to operate on an opera singer instead. Since that happened, the Turkish construction worker obviously dies while the opera singer survives because apparently, other doctors in the hospital that Tenma works at is just unreliable. So we see in the first episode how the wife of the construction worker was furious at Tenma for not saving her husband. For me this scene wasn't very realistic because in the whole hospital, i don't know why they only relied on Tenma for such operations, either way, its one of the things that Tenma had to battle because of his morals. A few days later a similar situation occurs with a young boy coming into the ER with a bullet wound to the head at the same time that an important mayor needs an operation. Tenma decides to follow his morals this time and operates on the boy that came in first. and because of that, the mayor dies and Tenma has to be berated by his scummy boss for operating on the boy instead- and this is where everything starts. After saving that boy, Tenma gets shit on by his own boss, gets told by his own girlfriend that not all lives are equal and cries to the boy he operated on while asleep, wishing that all of the people who didn't side with him should die. And everything goes down hill after that.

Probably one of the best Psychological Thriller anime series out there. Started off in such a slow pace but as you keep watching, the more intense it gets. I think what i loved the most about this anime is the creepy atmosphere it radiates whenever Johan is involved in a certain scene. You will either love or hate new characters in certain episodes or hate them at first but eventually learn to love them (cough Lunge *cough). It was interesting to watch Tenma's character progression and i just love how there were literally 0 filler episodes at all and the stories will always be connected. But one of the frustrating things about this anime is that : Nina keeps passing out when she remembers something from her past, Tenma CANNOT shoot Johan at all ( i know its in his good nature to save lives, and not take them but it was just funny to see him talk about "ending" things when he can't even fire a gun at someone). From the moment the first episode started and we have the religious text come up I knew I was in for something special and this became more apparent when I saw just how much was set up without having to be said. Monster is one of those series that grips you and never let's go. I'll forever remember this anime and i might re watch it someday even.