Monster

Mangaka: Naoki Urasawa
Genre: seinen, murder/mystery

Synopsis: Dr. Kenzou Tenma is the genius Japanese chief neurosurgeon at Eisler Memorial at Dusseldorf, Germany. The hospital's director's daughter, Eva Heinemann, is his fiancee. But one day, against the Director's wishes, instead of tending to the City Mayor, he operates on a little boy who needed his help more, having a gunshot wound to the head. With this transgression, he loses his position and his girlfriend. When the Director and two other doctors die, investigators turn their eyes on him. Dr. Tenma must prove his innocence but where does he start looking for clues? Could it be that the little boy he operated on, the one life he wan't supposed to save, had a hand in all these?

Comments: Monster is gripping, suspenseful; it's difficult to put down once you start. The hunt drags on and on across Germany to the Czech Republic and back for all 18 volumes though, and that may be tiring for some. Touching on eugenics, neo-Nazism, criminal psychology, politics, et cetera, this dark story is rich and complex and has so many turns, be careful not to get lost.

Monster has an anime version, too.

Warnings: a little nudity, lots of violence

Scanlator: all 18 volumes have been scanlated by Mangascreener