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Monster: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 4 by Naoki Urasawa

4 reviews

jasisreading's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Gun violence

indeedithappens's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Drug use, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Violence, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Deportation, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Self harm, Sexism, Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse

petitemass15's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Suicide, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Racism

rinku's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

The fourth volume of Monster succeeds, like all previous volumes, with creating a tense and threatening atmosphere. At the beginning, we follow the former detective Richard who’s trying to figure out the mystery behind Johann and

is then killed by him which was just so sad

. What I didn’t like about this volume was that there was not enough Nina or Temna here since both just appear in the later chapters. I also had the feeling that the story is going in circles a bit this time. 

I still love the art style; the faces have so much character, even though the designs of some women seem a bit misogynistic to me. The settings look also great as always. What is additionally great about this series is the fact that you can’t trust any character, leading to me always worrying for our POV characters. Furthermore, almost all characters have such dark pasts. Temna is still my favorite and Runge still annoys me. A character I really liked this volume is Lotte and her slowly blooming friendship with Nina; it was so amazing how she defended Lotte from some creep. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Medical content, Child death, and Violence

Minor: Sexual harassment, Vomit, Drug abuse, Hate crime, and Racism