This has got to be one of the
best story driven anime I've watched this year!
Parka, 2006
I love this anime!
Clone, 2006
The anime (left), the manga (right)
For the impatient, just read the underlined will
do.
---------------------- Brief Synopsis (provided by
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Kenzou Tenma is an extremely talented brain surgeon at the start of
a promising career in a Düsseldorf hospital. Tenma has it all:
money, esteem, a beautiful fiancée...It doesn't take long however
until he realizes he's being used by hospital politics and that the
management isn't interested in saving lives, but maintaining a
positive image of the facility.
One day Tenma ignores a
direct order from above. He refuses to operate on the mayor, but
instead decides to stay true to medical ethics and save the patient
brought in earlier - a boy shot in the head, who survived carnage
in his own home. Tenma pays a high price for his
humanitarian actions: His girl turns her back on him, he loses his
position in the hospital hierarchy. His career is heading for the
imminent downfall. To make matters worse, it starts becoming
evident that the boy Tenma saved was much more than he appeared to
be. A series of murders
throughout Germany follows, all bearing the signature of Johan
Liebert, the child Tenma helped escape death.
To correct his past error, Tenma must get to the bottom of the
mysterious homicides, and investigate the truth of the Monster who
is behind all of this. The kind-hearted doctor will soon have to
discover that it takes one monster to defeat another...
--- Comments by Parka ---
The genre is mystery/thriller. The mood and atmosphere set by the
anime is amazing. I have never seen any other anime that sets the
mood this well. The anime truly lets you feel the eeriness flowing
out from the screen.
Couple with tight editing, each episode leaves you wanting more,
until the last episode where the doctor faces the monster, ONE ON
ONE.
Fans of conspiracy theory might like this because the plot is one
that's big enough to entangle all the key charactors in it.
This is one of the most under-rated anime, but one of the best
around.
--- Ratings ---
5/5
