tessyflg 's review for:

Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 1: Herr Dr. Tenma by Naoki Urasawa

4.0

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Medical jargon confuses the hell out of me but hospital politics and waiting room tension give me life. I'm satisfied with where a bunch of hateable characters are going as well as the conflict build-up that sets off every time Dr. Tenma makes any decision, at any moment. Give the little dude a break. Something that is putting me off, however, is the fact that background male characters in the story have basically the same face? Like the father in law, the friend that's also a doctor, the other doctors that were clealry not his friends, I can't tell them apart until they're suddenly irrelevant to the story. It's ridiculous that regardless how much I type, I keep forgetting the name of the investigator whose main purpose to the story is that he never forgets anything, ever.