Naoki Urasawa's Monster
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Episode 15
15. Decision
aired: Tue, Nov 2, 2004
Richard commits suicide. But Dr. Reichwein, who was counseling Richard, is suspicious of the circumstances of Richard's death and begins an investigation himself. Dr. Reichwein is attacked by hoodlums who try to interfere with his investigation...
Episode 14
14. Execution
aired: Tue, Oct 26, 2004
Richard is a detective who quit the police force when he shot a criminal while on duty and has run himself into ruin. But reinvestigating some unsolved cases, he begins to put his life back together. Richard also discovers that there is one person behind all of the cases...
Episode 13
13. Just One Case
aired: Tue, Oct 19, 2004
Schuwald tells Richard to stop the investigation because everything has been solved. Richard has suspicions about an earlier investigation he had been asked to conduct concerning the suicide of Edmund, a boy who was thought to be Schuwald's son...
Episode 12
12. Proof
aired: Tue, Oct 12, 2004
Richard is a detective hired by Schuwald to find his missing son. He quit the police force because he shot a young criminal on duty. He is also trying to recover from alcoholism...
Episode 11
11. The Secret Woods
aired: Tue, Oct 5, 2004
"The Thursday Boy," Edmund, who was pretending to be Schuwald's son, commits suicide. Richard, a detective hired by Schuwald, has suspicions about Edmund's death. Meanwhile, Karl approaches a certain young man who turns out to be Johan...
Episode 10
10. Thursday's Boy
aired: Tue, Sep 28, 2004
Hans Georg Schuwald, a blind business tycoon who's infamously known as "The Vampire of Bavaria," hires a different college student each day of the week to read books to him. Karl is in charge of Tuesdays. He has approached Schuwald in order to find his mother, who was acquainted with the man...
Episode 9
9. Of Men and Dining
aired: Tue, Sep 14, 2004
Tenma is at a mountain villa treating a man who was a high-ranking member of a crime syndicate. The man tells Tenma about a shocking event that happened in the underworld five years ago...
Episode 8
8. Eva's Confession
aired: Tue, Sep 7, 2004
Eva, Tenma's former fiancée, has risked everything to get her revenge on Tenma and has been spending her days drinking. But a man appears before her...It's Roberto, a man deeply connected to Johan...
Episode 7
7. Lunge's Trap
aired: Tue, Aug 31, 2004
There is a murder in Hamburg, Germany, believed to be one of the multiple homicides of middle-aged couples. The BKA dispatches Inspector Lunge and other investigators to go there. Lunge tells a newspaper journalist who is eager for a scoop that the murderer is the same one who committed the previous murders, and that the murderer is Tenma...
Episode 6
6. Happy Holidays
aired: Tue, Aug 24, 2004
There is a man who lives with bodyguards in a luxurious mansion in Nice in the south of France. Nina is looking for this man, called Muller, because he is the former detective who killed her foster parents, the Fortners. After quitting the police, Muller was hired by a crime syndicate. He made a lot of money in a year and retired...
Episode 5
5. Journey to Freiham
aired: Tue, Aug 17, 2004
Tenma and Dieter hitchhike to their next destination in Freiham. Mr. Jones and Leia, an older vacationing British couple, pick them up. Jones, a former police officer, is suspicious of Tenma, who is wanted by the police. But Leia is friendly, and thanks to her, the trip is peaceful. Midway, Jones reveals an unexpected reason for why the couple has come to Germany!
Episode 4
4. Monster's Abyss
aired: Tue, Aug 10, 2004
Tenma visits criminal psychologist Rudi Gillen, one of his college classmates. Gillen believes that Tenma is a serial killer with multiple personalities and calls the police to have him arrested. Furthermore, he wants to analyze Tenma as a research subject after he's been arrested...
Episode 3
3. Five Sugars
aired: Tue, Aug 3, 2004
Nina is held by the police as a witness to the plan to burn down the Turkish quarter but is released when Mr. Rosso appears, the owner of a small restaurant where Nina worked after parting ways with Tenma. It's been a long time since they've met, and when Nina sees Rosso pour five spoonfuls of sugar into his coffee, she finally smiles again.
Episode 2
2. Reunion
aired: Tue, Jul 27, 2004
General Wolf is the first person who recognized Johan's talents. Having experienced how terrifying Johan is, he asks Tenma to kill him. But Tenma threatens one of the general's subordinates and escapes to Frankfurt in order to prevent the right-wing extremists from burning down the Turkish part of town. ...
Episode 1
1. Wolf's Confession
aired: Tue, Jul 20, 2004
The Baby leads Nina to Professor Geidlitz, one of the leaders of a right-wing extremist organization. Geidlitz tells Nina about his plan to find Johan and turn him into the leader of his organization, and informs her that he needs Nina in order to do so. Meanwhile, Tenma gets into trouble when he is caught by the Baby.
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Episode 74
The Real Monster
aired: Mon, Sep 26, 2005
After the events in Ruhenheim, Tenma is cleared of suspicion of multiple homicide, and the survivors of the case begin to move on with their lives.
Episode 73
Scenery for a Doomsday
aired: Mon, Sep 19, 2005
Tenma is running through the town in the pouring rain with Franz Bonaparta, also known as Klaus Poppe, in order to save Inspector Lunge, who has gone off to arrest Roberto.
Episode 72
A Nameless Man
aired: Mon, Sep 12, 2005
Inspector Lunge tracks down Roberto, the leader of the inciters, and charges in. But Inspector Lunge ends up being defeated by Roberto, who declares that he has no name.
Episode 71
The Wrath of the Magnificent Steiner
aired: Mon, Sep 5, 2005
In the pouring rain, in the town of Ruhenheim, people have become suspicious of each other and have begun killing each other. Inspector Lunge is saving the surviving townspeople as he searches for the leader of the group that is inciting the massacre.
Episode 70
The Town Massacre
aired: Mon, Aug 29, 2005
It continues to rain in the town of Ruhenheim. The phones don't connect to the outside, and it is completely isolated. Furthermore, gunshots can be heard throughout the town.
Episode 69
The Peaceful House
aired: Mon, Aug 22, 2005
Inspector Lunge and Grimmer are standing on a hill that overlooks the town of Ruhenheim. A disaster will soon befall this seemingly peaceful town. The townspeople will become suspicious of each other and then annihilate each other.
Episode 68
Ruhenheim
aired: Mon, Aug 15, 2005
BKA inspector Lunge is standing on a hill that overlooks Ruhenheim, a peaceful country town. Lunge stays at a hotel whose only guests are an old married couple.
Episode 66
Welcome Home
aired: Mon, Aug 1, 2005
?apek is at the mercy of a gun-toting Nina and leads her to Johan by car. On the way there, ?apek reveals that Johan came just before Nina did, and that Johan told him to tell Nina where he was.
Episode 65
Johan's Footprints
aired: Mon, Jul 25, 2005
Nina has recovered all of her memories and goes alone to ?apek's villa in search of Johan. Meanwhile, acting on a note that Milan left behind, Tenma watches Christof, the young man who works with ?apek.
Episode 63
Unrelated Murders
aired: Mon, Jul 11, 2005
Inspector Visbaugh, who was in charge of the murder cases concerning the Lieberts and the Eisler Memorial Hospital victims, is nearing retirement. His final job is to transport Dinger, a multiple homicide offender.
Episode 62
A Pleasant Dinner Table
aired: Mon, Jul 4, 2005
Tenma is told by Eva's former bodyguard, Martin, that a man called Peter ?apek is continuing the experiments of the Red Rose Mansion. He says that ?apek is trying to control a demon.
Episode 61
The Door to Memories
aired: Mon, Jun 27, 2005
In order to regain her memories, Nina is in Prague with Dieter. She remembers that when she was young, Johan was taken to the Red Rose Mansion, and that she greeted him when he returned to the room in the building with the three frogs sign.
Episode 60
The Man Who Knew Too Much
aired: Mon, Jun 20, 2005
Martin ignores the order to kill Eva and plans to escape with her. He follows the mysterious man who was with the man in glasses who hired him to his room. But as if having anticipated he'd come, the man happily begins talking about Martin's past.
Episode 59
The Man Who Saw the Devil
aired: Mon, Jun 13, 2005
While acting as Eva's bodyguard, Martin becomes determined to protect Eva, even from Tenma, who is searching for Eva. But Eva has found the person she needed to find and their professional relationship is at an end.
Episode 58
I Hate This Job
aired: Mon, Jun 6, 2005
Two months earlier, before Tenma escaped, Martin visited Eva's room and took her away. A mysterious man in Frankfurt told Martin to bring Eva to him.
Episode 57
That Night
aired: Mon, May 30, 2005
Nina faints at the Red Rose Mansion and is saved by Lipsky, a puppeteer. When she recovers from the temporary shock, Nina remembers everything that happened on that tragic day that the Lieberts were killed.
Episode 56
The Never-Ending Journey
aired: Mon, May 23, 2005
Tenma has escaped and is headed to his lawyer Verdeman's house. There, Tenma finds a message inviting him to the Red Rose Mansion. Tenma heads to the Czech Republic while decoding the encoded memo that Verdeman's father left behind.
Episode 55
Room 402
aired: Mon, May 9, 2005
Tenma escapes with Milch and tries to warn Eva that she is in danger. Eva is staying in room 402 of the Hotel Steigent. Tenma is unable to contact Eva, so he heads to her room.
Episode 54
The Escape
aired: Mon, May 9, 2005
Tenma makes a false confession and places the blame on himself. He is moved from the detention area of the police station to a prison. Meanwhile, Eva calls the lawyer Baul to tell him that she will testify to prove Tenma's innocence.
Episode 53
Determination
aired: Mon, May 2, 2005
Tenma regains hope and decides to tell the truth about Johan. But he is shocked when he sees Baul, the lawyer who pays him a visit. Baul is actually Roberto, Johan's partner who Tenma shot when Roberto attempted to assassinate Schuwald!
Episode 52
The Lawyer
aired: Mon, Apr 25, 2005
Tenma is caught in the Czech Republic. He is moved to a police department in Düsseldorf and is questioned daily. Günter Milch, an escape artist, is in the same detention area.
Episode 51
The Monster's Love Letter
aired: Mon, Apr 18, 2005
In order to get close to the tycoon Schuwald, Johan used Schuwald's mistress, Margot Langer. Schuwald thinks back to the time he visited the building with the sign with the three frogs.
Episode 50
The Rose Mansion
aired: Mon, Apr 11, 2005
Inspector Lunge arrives at the Red Rose Mansion after finding a hint in a picture book. Afterwards, he meets with Captainl Lanke, a leader of the former Czechoslovakian secret police.
Episode 49
The Cruelest Thing
aired: Mon, Apr 4, 2005
All the orphans who adore Grimmer try to prove his innocence. They find the blonde woman (Johan, disguised as Anna) who was at the scene of the murder.
Episode 48
The Scariest Thing
aired: Mon, Mar 28, 2005
While searching for the sign with the three frogs, Nina is surprised that she knows the surrounding buildings and streets, but there is a shadow of fear in her memories. Meanwhile, Tenma and Grimmer get an important testimony from Lanke.
Episode 47
The Door to Nightmares
aired: Mon, Mar 21, 2005
Nina doesn't know that Johan has disguised himself as her and is confused when people in the street affectionately call her "Anna." Meanwhile, Tenma and Grimmer meet with Captain Karel Lanke, a leader of the former Czechoslovakian secret police.
Episode 46
Contact
aired: Mon, Mar 14, 2005
A Prague police detective from a special investigative team has been killed in Suk's room, and now Suk is being chased as a suspect in a series of murders.
Episode 45
The Monster's Afterimage
aired: Sat, Mar 5, 2005
The Czech police have turned their suspicions towards the journalist Grimmer and the young detective Suk for the murders of their former police chief and three former Czechoslovakian secret police members.
Episode 44
Double Darkness
aired: Mon, Feb 28, 2005
Suk reports to the police chief that he has discovered that Inspector Zeman had ties with former Czechoslovakian secret police that are hiding within the station.
Episode 43
Detective Suk
aired: Mon, Feb 21, 2005
Grimmer, who is investigating 511 Kinderheim, has passed out after being tortured by members of the former Czechoslovakian secret police. When he comes to, he is surrounded by their dead bodies.
Episode 42
The Adventures of the Magnificent Steiner
aired: Mon, Feb 14, 2005
Pedrov has been shot. Before he dies, he hands Grimmer the key to a safety-deposit box that contains the data and tapes of his old experiments. Grimmer is abducted by mysterious men who are after the key.
Episode 41
The Ghost of 511
aired: Mon, Feb 7, 2005
Grimmer is a freelance journalist who is investigating what happened at 511 Kinderheim. After parting ways with Tenma, he meets Reinhardt, the former director of 511 Kinderheim, who is going by the name Pedrov.
Episode 40
Grimmer
aired: Mon, Jan 31, 2005
Grimmer is a freelance journalist. Currently, he is investigating abuses that may have occurred in the kinderheim (orphanages) of the former East Germany. When East Germany still existed, he traveled around the world as a spy who posed as a journalist.
Episode 39
The Hell in His Eyes
aired: Mon, Jan 24, 2005
The one who is pointing a gun at Johan is not Tenma, but Nina. But because of the fire, it is unknown whether Johan was hit by a bullet. Johan disappears once again.
Episode 38
The Demon in My Eyes
aired: Mon, Jan 17, 2005
At first, Johan planned to take over Schuwald's financial conglomerate. But after reading a certain picture book, something inside of him changes. Johan makes his move.
Episode 37
A Nameless Monster
aired: Mon, Jan 10, 2005
Lotte, a college student, realizes that Nina and Johan look exactly alike and reads to Nina the picture book that Johan was reading when he collapsed.
Episode 36
The Monster of Chaos
aired: Mon, Dec 13, 2004
Tenma is hiding on top of a bookshelf in a giant library late at night. He has a sniper rife with him and is planning to shoot Johan, who will appear the next day at the tycoon Schuwald's book collection donation ceremony.
Episode 35
My Nameless Hero
aired: Mon, Dec 6, 2004
Inspector Lunge of the BKA, who is searching for Tenma, meets some Japanese people in Germany who were friends of Tenma and asks them seemingly trivial things about him, trying to get into Tenma's mind.
Episode 34
At the Edge of Darkness
aired: Mon, Nov 29, 2004
After an unexpected incident, Johan is hospitalized but immediately released. Johan receives a threatening letter from the prostitute who was pretending to be Karl's mother, Margot.
Episode 33
A Child's View
aired: Mon, Nov 22, 2004
Dr. Reichwein gets a request from a mother to counsel her son, who hurt himself jumping off a roof. Martin doesn't tell Reichwein anything, but he reveals the truth to Dieter, who has come with Reichwein.
Episode 32
Sanctuary
aired: Mon, Nov 15, 2004
Lotte has feelings for Schuwald's son, Karl, but lately, Karl has been busy working with his father, so he hasn't had any time for her. In the college library, Lotte meets Nina.
Episode 31
In Broad Daylight
aired: Mon, Nov 8, 2004
After Richard's death, Reichwein tries to investigate Johan by himself, but an assassin is after him. Tenma saves him from danger just in time.
Episode 30
Decision
aired: Mon, Nov 1, 2004
Richard commits suicide. But Dr. Reichwein, who was counseling Richard, is suspicious of the circumstances of Richard's death and begins an investigation himself.
Episode 29
Execution
aired: Mon, Oct 25, 2004
Richard is a detective who quit the police force when he shot a criminal while on duty and has run himself into ruin. But reinvestigating some unsolved cases, he begins to put his life back together.
Episode 28
Just One Case
aired: Mon, Oct 18, 2004
Schuwald tells Richard to stop the investigation because everything has been solved. Richard has suspicions about an earlier investigation he had been asked to conduct concerning the suicide of Edmund, a boy who was thought to be Schuwald's son.
Episode 27
Proof
aired: Mon, Oct 11, 2004
Richard is a detective hired by Schuwald to find his missing son. He quit the police force because he shot a young criminal on duty. He is also trying to recover from alcoholism.
Episode 26
The Secret Woods
aired: Mon, Oct 4, 2004
"The Thursday Boy," Edmund, who was pretending to be Schuwald's son, commits suicide. Richard, a detective hired by Schuwald, has suspicions about Edmund's death.
Episode 25
Thursday’s Boy
aired: Mon, Sep 27, 2004
Hans Georg Schuwald, a blind business tycoon who’s infamously known as "The Vampire of Bavaria," hires a different college student each day of the week to read books to him.
Episode 24
Of Men and Dining
aired: Mon, Sep 13, 2004
Tenma is at a mountain villa treating a man who was a high-ranking member of a crime syndicate. The man tells Tenma about a shocking event that happened in the underworld five years ago.
Episode 23
Eva's Confession
aired: Mon, Sep 6, 2004
Eva, Tenma's former fiancée, has risked everything to get her revenge on Tenma and has been spending her days drinking. But a man appears before her...It's Roberto, a man deeply connected to Johan.
Episode 22
Lunge's Trap
aired: Mon, Aug 30, 2004
There is a murder in Hamburg, Germany, believed to be one of the multiple homicides of middle-aged couples. The BKA dispatches Inspector Lunge and other investigators to go there.
Episode 21
Happy Holidays
aired: Mon, Aug 23, 2004
There is a man who lives with bodyguards in a luxurious mansion in Nice in the south of France. Nina is looking for this man, called Muller, because he is the former detective who killed her foster parents.
Episode 20
Journey to Freiham
aired: Mon, Aug 16, 2004
Tenma and Dieter hitchhike to their next destination in Freiham. Mr. Jones and Leia, an older vacationing British couple, pick them up. Jones, a former police officer, is suspicious of Tenma.
Episode 19
Monster's Abyss
aired: Mon, Aug 9, 2004
Tenma visits criminal psychologist Rudi Gillen, one of his college classmates. Gillen believes that Tenma is a serial killer with multiple personalities and calls the police to have him arrested.
Episode 18
Five Sugars
aired: Mon, Aug 2, 2004
Nina is held by the police as a witness to the plan to burn down the Turkish quarter but is released when Mr. Rosso appears, the owner of a small restaurant where Nina worked after parting ways with Tenma.
Episode 17
Reunion
aired: Mon, Jul 26, 2004
General Wolf is the first person who recognized Johan's talents. Having experienced how terrifying Johan is, he asks Tenma to kill him. But Tenma threatens one of the general's subordinates and escapes to Frankfurt.
Episode 16
Wolf's Confession
aired: Mon, Jul 19, 2004
The Baby leads Nina to Professor Geidlitz, one of the leaders of a right-wing extremist organization. Geidlitz tells Nina about his plan to find Johan and turn him into the leader of his organization.
Episode 15
Be My Baby
aired: Mon, Jul 12, 2004
In order to find Johan, Nina is in a bar in Frankfurt dressed like a prostitute. She wants to meet "The Baby," a prominent right-wing extremist. But it turns out to be a trap.
Episode 14
Left Behind
aired: Sun, Jul 4, 2004
Inspector Lunge of the BKA has been pursuing Tenma as the prime serial murder suspect, but right now he is investigating a different case. Lunge pays little attention to his family, and his wife and daughter have grown tired of him and have left.
Episode 13
Petra and Schumann
aired: Mon, Jun 28, 2004
Tenma learns a little more about Johan's secret and goes on a journey for more clues. Dieter joins him even though Tenma tries to tell him that he can’t come. In the village of Poser, they meet an old doctor named Schumann.
Episode 12
A Little Experiment
aired: Mon, Jun 21, 2004
Hartmann knows about 511 Kinderheim, the orphanage where Johan was raised. Hartmann repeatedly abuses his foster son, Dieter. Tenma saves Dieter and searches for a new home for the boy.
Episode 11
511 Kinderheim
aired: Mon, Jun 14, 2004
The Lieberts are the couple who raised Johan and Anna (Nina). Tenma visits the house in Berlin that they lived in before they defected and learns the twins were adopted from an orphanage. That orphanage, 511 Kinderheim, is now in ruins…
Episode 10
A Past Erased
aired: Mon, Jun 7, 2004
A city council member and his wife are killed in Verden, Germany. Tenma believes that Johan could be the murderer, so he breaks into the council member's home for clues. There he meets a petty thief named Heckel.
Episode 9
The Girl and the Seasoned Soldier
aired: Mon, May 31, 2004
Tenma decides that he must stop Johan himself and disappears from the hospital. He goes to a training ground owned by Hugo Bernhardt, a mercenary who once worked for the French Foreign Legion.
Episode 8
Pursued
aired: Mon, May 24, 2004
Nina has regained her childhood memories, and the things she remembers are horrifying! Nina disappears, leaving a note for Tenma telling him that he's not at fault for what happened.
Episode 7
House of Tragedy
aired: Mon, May 17, 2004
Tenma is reunited with Nina (Anna). But when they return to the Fortners' home, they discover that Maurer and the Fortners have been killed. Was it Johan's doing?! Nina is shocked and faints, but this event revives her long-lost memories!
Episode 6
The Missing
aired: Mon, May 10, 2004
Tenma uncovers evidence that reveals Johan will meet his twin sister Anna in Heidelberg when she turns 20. Tenma reveals everything to Maurer, a journalist for a local newspaper, and asks for his help in finding Anna.
Episode 5
The Girl of Heidelberg
aired: Mon, May 3, 2004
Nina Fortner is a student at the University of Heidelberg. She is an upbeat girl who works hard at her studies, club activities and part-time jobs. She also likes to imagine the "prince charming" who sends her romantic anonymous emails.
Episode 4
Night of the Execution
aired: Mon, Apr 26, 2004
Several years later, Tenma operates on Adolph Junkers, a key witness in a case involving the multiple homicides of middle-aged couples. Tenma hears Junkers say that a monster is coming…
Episode 3
A Murder
aired: Mon, Apr 19, 2004
The director of the hospital and two of Tenma's superiors are found murdered. Johan and his twin sister Anna disappear from the hospital. Inspector Lunge of the BKA suspects that Tenma is the murderer.
Episode 2
Downfall
aired: Mon, Apr 12, 2004
In the end, Tenma chooses to treat the boy Johan before the mayor. His surgery is a success. However, other doctors operate on the mayor, and their surgery is not a success. Tenma is punished for disobeying orders.
Episode 1
Herr Dr. Tenma
aired: Mon, Apr 5, 2004
Doctor Tenma is a brilliant Japanese neurosurgeon who works at Eisler Memorial Hospital in Germany. He is doing well professionally and is even engaged to the director's daughter, Eva. One day, a boy with a gunshot wound to the head is brought to him.
