List of Monster episodes

The Monster anime series adapts Naoki Urasawa's manga of the same name. The 74-episode series was created by Madhouse and broadcast on Nippon Television from April 6, 2004 to September 27, 2005. Directed by Masayuki Kojima, it is a faithful adaptation of the entire story; essentially recreated shot for shot and scene for scene compared to the original manga. The few subtle differences include short snippets of additional dialogue and slight re-ordering of scenes in places. The series soundtrack is composed by Kuniaki Haishima.

Dr. Kenzo Tenma is congratulated by his peers; he has just performed a successful surgery on a famous opera singer. The next day, Tenma is awakened by his fiancée Eva Heinemann. She congratulates him on his successful operation as they watch the news on television. There is an announcement on the news of the arrival of Mr. Liebert, an ex Trade Office adviser from East Germany. Mr. Liebert has arrived in Dusseldorf with his family. The news next broadcasts a press conference that Eva's father, the director of the hospital where Tenma works, is holding. The press conference concerns the successful surgery on the opera singer, news which Eva is eager to watch. Things take an ugly turn later when Tenma is left with a warning from his colleague, Dr. Becker. He is warned that he is being made use of by the director. He is next faced by the grieving wife of a Turkish man who had died in the hospital; she blames Tenma for her husband's death. Tenma is upset when he learns that the woman's husband had arrived first for surgery that day but was not attended to because priority was given to the opera singer, by order from the director. As such, the woman's husband's operation was relinquished to the inexperience Dr. Becker. At dinner, Tenma mentions the incident to Eva, but she replies that since the grieving woman was only a poor Turk, her kind did not deserve preferential treatment. Tenma is appalled by her response. Meanwhile at the Liebert residence, police arrive to find the dead bodies of the Mr. and Mrs. Liebert lying in a pool of blood. They also find the Liebert's son lying unconscious with a severe head wound. Standing next to the boy, is his twin sister, apparently under a state of severe shock. Dr. Tenma is immediately called back to the hospital. During his drive back to the hospital, Dr. Tenma reflects back to the conversation he had with Dr. Heinemann. Dr. Heinemann had told him that it was not his fault that the Turkish man had died and insisted that the opera singer was actually the first to arrive to the operating room. The director also orders Tenma to cancel his research on "Cerebral Vasospasm after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage" and to instead focus on the speech that the Director has developed for a seminar. Dr. Tenma arrives at the hospital and prepares to operate on the injured blond boy. As Tenma enters the operating room, he overhears the whispers of the traumatized twin sister, "Kill him…"

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