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When Dr. Kenzo Tenma learns he saved the life of a young boy who grows up to become a serial killer, he sets out in search of the killer's twin sister, who he hopes may hold clues to stopping him.
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Naoki Urasawa’s career as a manga artist spans more than twenty years and has firmly established him as one of the true manga masters of Japan. Born in Tokyo in 1960, Urasawa debuted with
BETA! in 1983 and hasn’t stopped his impressive output since. Well-versed in a variety of genres, Urasawa’s oeuvre encompasses a multitude of different subjects, such as a romantic comedy (
Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl), a suspenseful human drama about a former mercenary (
Pineapple ARMY; story by Kazuya Kudo), a captivating psychological suspense story (Monster), a sci-fi adventure manga (
20th Century Boys), and a modern reinterpretation of the work of the God of Manga, Osamu Tezuka (
Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka; co-authored with Takashi Nagasaki, supervised by Macoto Tezka, and with the cooperation of Tezuka Productions). Many of his books have spawned popular animated and live-action TV programs and films, and 2008 saw the theatrical release of the first of three live-action Japanese films based on
20th Century Boys.
No stranger to accolades and awards, Urasawa received the 2011 and 2013 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia, and is a three-time recipient of the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award, a two-time recipient of the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize, and also received the Kodansha Manga Award. Urasawa has also become involved in the world of academia, and in 2008 accepted a guest teaching post at Nagoya Zokei University, where he teaches courses in, of course, manga.
Riassunto
Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their
lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there's no
way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success
and instead concentrate on his oath to save peoples' lives would result in the
birth of an abomination. The questions of good and evil now take on a
terrifyingly real dimension.
Years later, in
Germany during the tumultuous post-reunification period, middle-aged childless
couples are being killed one after another. The serial killer's identity is
known. The reasons why he kills are not. Dr. Tenma sets out on a journey to find
the killer's twin sister, who may hold some clues to solving the enigma of the
"Monster."
For older teen audiences.
