I just finished Monster and I have a comment about the ending.
I really did enjoy the show, Monster
Posted Oct 26, 2016, 5:54 PM UTC · edited
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agree. think tenma should of put two bullets in johan skull.
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Should have done it when they met. Should have pulled the air tube out of Hitler recarnated
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I don't really see why I need to say that there will be spoilers in the body of the post when I specifically wrote that I just finished it and that in the post I would be talking about the ending, but O.K, I changed it.
I'm guessing this is some form of zero tolerance policy.
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Yeah, that's basically it. The current policy that the team has adopted requires anything that doesn't have [Spoilers] plus a show name in the title, be tagged with normal tags in any other discussion about it.
Post reapproved, thanks.
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O.K, thanks for being a good mod then! There are many subreddits that could use systems like yours with people like you enforcing them.
I'll remember this better in future.
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Not a problem, thanks for cooperating~
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I like that there is someone else commenting on your thread with a link to their own thread complaining about the ending. Maybe one day I shall send my own thread to someone else in a similar way. (Hello, future person!)
Anyway, I wanted the show to have a depressing ending where Tenma realises he is the true monster (even if that is predictable). I really did not expect him to survive the series.
I am O.K. with it being a happy ending too even if it's not what I prefer, but my main gripe with the series really is with the empty bed at the end. I really think the only way I can be O.K. with the last scene of the ending is with if it means Johan committed suicide by jumping out of the window. Nothing to do with him escaping would be satisfying to me.
I mean, there's also the issue to do with Tenma's character development. There never was a point where it felt like he had hit a point of no return (after you find out that he never actually did kill Roberto).
Gah. I can't let the ending taint my thoughts on the series too much. I really did love what I was watching. I think I just need time to get over it.
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Naoki Urasawa (the creator of the manga) likes to give open endings to his works, so the reader/watcher can craft his own theories of what happen at the end.
I can appreciate that, but I think open endings are more suited to shorter works. I don't know how I feel really, but I think if a piece of work is as long as this it should have a payoff.
Maybe I am too confused to give my actual opinion. I really am unsure. I did expect it to have a truly depressing ending so am pleasantly surprised it was a happy one.
I am just surprised that Lunge, Eva and Kenzo lived.
I can understand that, actually, I felt the same way you do (but in my case, I read the manga). But after analysing everything and knowing the Urasawa style (I read 20th Century Boys before Monsters) I realize that maybe is not the best ending ever, but it was the best for Monsters.
It's hard for me to put in words why I think that because my english is not that good, but maybe you can reach the same or a different conclusion as me, after all, that's what an open ending is for.
The happy ending honestly dropped the series from a ten to a nine for me. If tenma went ahead and killed Johan, in spite of his dogged determination to stick to his values, I think the series as a whole would be a lot darker and better, since it would pose the question of: why go back on your ideals now? when many moments before tenma avoided the expediency of brutal violence, when it could have saved so much difficulty and loss of life. The happiness of the ending makes the entire series, in retrospect, seem several hues brighter, and is a jarring end to a tale about the great evils of mankind.
Open endings for longer works are frustrating, but still ultimately effective. I'm not sure it would've worked as well with a firm conclusion.