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Promotional image for the anime series featuring Kenzo Tenma and a partially-shadowed Johan Liebert.
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 7, 2004, to September 28, 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.
Episode list
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date[1] | English air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | "Herr Dr. Tenma" Transliteration: "Heru Dokutā Tenma" (Japanese: ヘルDr. テンマ) | Masayuki Kojima | Tatsuhiko Urahata | April 7, 2004 | October 12, 2009 | |
| Dr. Kenzo Tenma, Head of Neurosurgery at the Eisler Memorial Hospital in Düsseldorf, carries out a successful neurosurgery on a famous opera singer, but the hospital Director Udo Heinmann takes the credit during a press conference. Later, Tenma is saddened when he discovers that an operation on a Turkish construction worker was given a lower priority and subsequently died where his widow blamed him for not operating on him. When out with Director Heinemann's daughter Eva, he states that the Turkish construction worker died because Dr. Becker took too long treating him. She comments that not all people are equal. Days later, Tenma is called in to remove a bullet from the head of Johan, the adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Liebert who were shot dead in their home. His twin sister Anna is also admitted, apparently in a state of severe shock with post-traumatic amnesia, muttering the words "kill... him". When Tenma is about to commence the operation, he is called away by Chief of Surgery Dr. Oppenheim on phone-based instructions from Director Heinemann to start surgery on Mayor Roedecker, who had previously committed a large amount of funds to the hospital. When Tenma states to Heinemann that he's the only one who can operate on Johann and to have Dr. Boyer handle the mayor, Heinemann advises Tenma to do the job as Roedecker is going to review Eisler Memorial Hospital next month. Due to his conscience, Tenma decided to go against Heinemann's orders and operate on the small boy. | ||||||
| 02 | "Downfall" Transliteration: "Tenraku" (Japanese: 転落) | Ryōsuke Nakamura | Tatsuhiko Urahata | April 14, 2004 | October 12, 2009 | |
| Dr. Tenma is able to save Johan's life, but Roedecker dies during surgery under Boyer. He and Oppenheim scold Tenma stating that the doctors had to scramble to cover for him at the last minute resulting in Roedecker's death. Oppenheim has forwarded his report to the director. As a news report states that flowers were left at City Hall and a decision for a new mayor is taking place, Director Heinemann stated in a press conference that Roedecker died of a cerebral infarction and that they did their best to save his life. Later at a hospital staff banquet while apologizing to Director Heinemann, Tenma is shocked when Boyer is revealed to be the new Head of Neurosurgery. Despite forgiving Tenma and letting him continue working in the hospital, Director Heinemann states that he won't accept his papers for the next health summit nor recommend him in the event of a transfer. As Tenma leaves the banquet, Eva Heinemann callously breaks off their engagement, dropping her ring at his feet. Tenma confesses at the bedside of the apparently unconscious Johan that he wishes Director Heinemann was dead. Meanwhile, Detective Egon Weisbach tries to get Anna Liebert to remember her name and the events of the night her parents died. Director Heinemann suggests to Boyer and Oppenheim providing photographs of the Liebert twins to the media, in order to play on public sympathy and garner attention for the hospital. He casually offers the other doctors candy donated to the sick children and orders Oppenheim to reassign Boyer as Johan's attending physician. There was a brief argument between Tenma and Boyer about his photographic action as Boyer states to Tenma that he served his purpose with the boy. Some nights later, a nurse discovers Oppenheim and Boyer dead in their offices while Eva finds her father dead in his study. | ||||||
| 03 | "Murder Case" Transliteration: "Satsujin Jiken" (Japanese: 殺人事件) | Tōru Takahashi | Tatsuhiko Urahata | April 21, 2004 | October 19, 2009 | |
| The police arrive at Tenma's apartment and inform him that Director Heinemann, Oppenheim, and Boyer were found dead. When Tenma returns to Eisler Memorial Hospital, he also learns that the Liebert twins have disappeared. Following Director Heinemann's funeral, Tenma is informed by Inspector Egon Weisbach and Inspector Heinrich Lunge of the BKA that the dead men were poisoned by candy containing a muscle relaxant and Lunge suspects the doctor may be involved. Tenma considers returning to Japan. With the vacuum created by the three deaths and another doctor transferring to another location, Tenma is promoted to chief of surgery at the hospital by the unnamed chairman of the board. Eva attempts to reconcile with Tenma, but he rebuffs her. Nine years later, Tenma has become highly successful as the Chief of Surgery and continues to operate on difficult cases while training other surgeons. When Adolph Junkers, a known criminal lock-picker is hit by a car while running in fear, Tenma is called in to operate on him. Tenma again encounters Inspector Lunge, who is investigating the criminal's involvement in a series of mysterious murders of wealthy middle-aged couples in their homes. After the operation, Tenma attempts to talk to Junkers, who says only that "the monster... is coming". | ||||||
| 04 | "The Night of Execution" Transliteration: "Shokei no Yoru" (Japanese: 処刑の夜) | Yukiyo Teramoto | Tatsuhiko Urahata | April 28, 2004 | October 19, 2009 | |
| Inspector Lunge questions Junkers about his involvement in the homicides and he becomes hysterical when Lunge asks who hired him. Tenma convinces Junkers to overcome his fear and confess his involvement, however, that night, Junkers finds his police guard dead, and he flees. Soon after, Tenma also finds the dead guard, poisoned by candy in the same manner as the hospital officials from nine years ago. He follows Junkers into a nearby construction site, and finds him with Johan Liebert, whose life Tenma saved. Junkers explains that Johan hired him and his associates, whom he has since killed, and is preparing to execute Junkers. Johan reveals that his real name is not Liebert, and admits that he was the one who poisoned the hospital officials and the policeman. Johan calmly executes Junkers and walks away, leaving Tenma distraught at Johan's lack of respect for human life. Later, Tenma explains everything to Inspector Lunge who finds Tenma's involvement in these events suspicious, but lets him go nonetheless. | ||||||
| 05 | "The Girl From Heidelberg" Transliteration: "Haideruberuku no Shōjo" (Japanese: ハイデルベルクの少女) | Tomoki Kobayashi | Tatsuhiko Urahata | May 5, 2004 | October 26, 2009 | |
| Nina Fortner is a bright university student studying law at a university in Heidelberg. She is seeing a counselor regarding strange dreams and has no memories of her life before the age of ten. She begins receiving poetic emails from an unknown person and decides to meet them. One day in a lecture class, she is overcome by fear and nausea at the mention of a family massacre. Meanwhile, Tenma is investigating the serial murders of middle-aged, childless couples and is searching for information on Michael Reichmann which he believes was Johan's real name. He encounters an old blind man who befriended a boy called Franz who said that Tenma saved his life. The boy had an abiding interest in war stories, particularly those involving extreme fear and said that he would meet his twin sister when she turns twenty in Heidelberg. As Nina leaves to meet the unknown person her parents prepare to tell her that she was adopted. At the arranged place she sees Johan nearby and he seems familiar, then she suddenly faints. | ||||||
| 06 | "Disappearance Report" Transliteration: "Shissō Kiji" (Japanese: 失踪記事) | Kenji Nagasaki | Tatsuhiko Urahata | May 12, 2004 | October 26, 2009 | |
| With the help of Maurer, a local newspaper journalist, Tenma is able to track down the Fortners on the day of the twins' twentieth birthday. The Fortners refuse to talk about the missing twin boy, but reveal that Nina has left to meet the "mysterious stranger" at Heidelberg Castle. Tenma drives to the castle where he saves Nina from a hired thug and takes her back home, trying to explain that she is Anna Liebert. Meanwhile, the thug, tied up with Tenma's necktie, fearfully meets his employer. | ||||||
| 07 | "Mansion of Tragedy" Transliteration: "Sangeki no Kan" (Japanese: 惨劇の館) | Akane Inoue | Tatsuhiko Urahata | May 19, 2004 | November 2, 2009 | |
| Tenma and Nina return to find Fortners and Maurer dead. The scene brings Anna's memories flooding back and she says that she shot Johan. Two detectives arrive at the scene and escort Tenma and Nina away, however Tenma becomes suspicious of them and he escapes with Nina. Back in town, Tenma finds that the detectives are authentic and the thug at the castle was found dead. Nina, now aware of her past, slips away from Tenma. Inspector Lunge examines the scene, and finds a necktie that he suspects belonged to Tenma. | ||||||
| 08 | "The Fugitive" Transliteration: "Owareru Mi" (Japanese: 追われる身) | Ryōsuke Nakamura | Tatsuhiko Urahata | May 26, 2004 | November 2, 2009 | |
| Tenma returns to work at the hospital in Dusseldorf. Meanwhile, Lunge questions Eva, now a three-time divorcee, about the necktie he found at the murder scene, but she denies ever seeing it. Eva then pleads with Tenma to take her back, but he refuses and Eva threatens to turn him over to Inspector Lunge as she gave the necktie to Tenma years earlier. With the police on his tail, Tenma is forced to flee and he recalls the events that have led to his current situation. Five months later, Tenma learns that an elderly couple were killed in Verden and that he is the main suspect. | ||||||
| 09 | "The Girl And The Seasoned Soldier" Transliteration: "Rōhei to Shōjo" (Japanese: 老兵と少女) | Shigetaka Ikeda | Tatsuhiko Urahata | June 1, 2004 | November 9, 2009 | |
| Five months ago, Tenma began rigorous firearms training with a former army veteran named Hugo Bernhardt who was also taking care of an angry orphaned girl whose mother he shot dead in Myanmar. During his time there, Tenma creates a new bond between the girl and the veteran, and later when questioned by Inspector Lunge, Bernhardt refuses to disclose Tenma's location. | ||||||
| 10 | "A Past Erased" Transliteration: "Kesareta Kako" (Japanese: 消された過去) | Yukiyo Teramoto | Tatsuhiko Urahata | June 9, 2004 | November 9, 2009 | |
| While investigating the murder of a prominent councilman and his wife at the Springer Estate in Verden, Tenma encounters the petty criminal Otto Heckel and escapes with him. Heckel suggests that they could make good money by operating on wounded criminals, but also reveals that he knows the councilman's killer. They visit the killer who is remorseful, duped by a man called Erich into committing the murders. But before Tenma can extract any more information, he kills himself. In order to pay his debts, Heckel arranges for Tenma to be abducted to treat a wounded man who is a suspect in a terrorist attack. Despite being threatened, Tenma decides to save him anyway. | ||||||
| 11 | "511 Kinderheim" Transliteration: "511 Kindāhaimu" (Japanese: 511キンダーハイム) | Kentarō Nakamura | Tatsuhiko Urahata | June 16, 2004 | November 16, 2009 | |
| While investigating in the former East Germany, Tenma discovers that Johan was adopted by the Lieberts from an orphanage called 511 Kinderheim which is now abandoned. He contacts Hartmann, a former district official with the Ministry, who explains that the orphanage was an extremely harsh environment for the children, ruled by fear and violence. There, Tenma also encounters a boy under Hartmann's care named Dieter. When Tenma discovers Dieter's body is covered with bruises, he confronts Hartmann and takes Dieter to the hospital. Tenma then goes to another orphanage where the director Elna Tyce tells him that 511 Kinderheim was an East German experimental laboratory. | ||||||
| 12 | "A Little Experiment" Transliteration: "Sasayaka na Jikken" (Japanese: ささやかな実験) | Hiroshi Aoyama | Tatsuhiko Urahata | June 23, 2004 | November 16, 2009 | |
| Tenma learns that the orphans in 511 Kinderheim were part of a project to produce perfect soldiers through psychological reconstruction. However, during a power struggle, the fifty instructors and orphans were killed. Hartmann takes Dieter back from the hospital, and when Tenma visits Hartmann's apartment he realizes that Hartmann was at 511 Kinderheim and is now trying to reshape Dieter to be similar to Johan. At the ruins of the orphanage, Hartmann explains to Tenma that the battle was triggered by Johan and that General Wolf is the key to Johan's origins. Much to Hartmann's surprise, Dieter decides to reject him and leaves with Tenma. | ||||||
| 13 | "Petra and Schumann" Transliteration: "Petora to Shūman" (Japanese: ペトラとシューマン) | Akane Inoue | Kazuyuki Fudeyasu | June 30, 2004 | November 23, 2009 | |
| Tenma treats a local drunk after an accident, and then assists Dr. Schumann, the local doctor in treating the village residents. He visits an elderly woman who refuses to have herself examined when Tenma realizes that the woman has a subarachnoid hemorrhage he performs an impromptu operation to save her. Meanwhile her son, a police officer, threatens to arrest Tenma after discovering that he is wanted for murder. However Schumann and the villagers convince the police officer to let Tenma go, and he leaves with Dieter to continue his quest to find Johan. | ||||||
| 14 | "The Abandoned Man・The Abandoned Woman" Transliteration: "Nokosareta Otoko · Nokosareta Onna" (Japanese: 残された男・残された女) | Kenji Nagasaki | Kurasumi Sunayama | July 7, 2004 | November 23, 2009 | |
| Workaholic Inspector Lunge is so busy investigating the case of a dead prostitute and her involvement with a politician that he shows no emotion when his wife and pregnant daughter leave him. When a key suspect in the case apparently commits suicide, Lunge is taken off all cases, so he decides to focus on catching Tenma. Meanwhile, the heavily alcoholic Eva Heinemann has casual sex with her gardener, but when she realizes that she is completely dissatisfied with her life, she burns her house down in a rage. | ||||||
| 15 | "Be My Baby" Transliteration: "Bī Mai Beibī" (Japanese: ビー·マイ·ベイビー) | Tetsuya Watanabe | Masatoshi Hakata | July 14, 2004 | November 30, 2009 | |
| In Frankfurt, Tenma questions the now disgraced former Detective Mesner, one of the detectives he fled from earlier, over the murder of Fortners and Maurer. Mesner says it was Muller, the other detective, who murdered them and mentions "The Baby", a midget who is part of a right-wing nationalist organization who is looking for Nina. Meanwhile, Nina tries to find Johan, and acting as a prostitute meets Baby at the Candy Club, but he abducts her, and later also captures Tenma. At Baby's mansion Nina is greeted by Prof. Goedelitz who explains that he is one of four men seeking to recruit Johan as their leader and Nina is the bait. In the basement, Baby brutally questions Tenma and reveals that they plan to burn down the Turkish portion of Frankfurt. Nina hears of the same plot from Ayse, a Turkish woman held captive in the same mansion. | ||||||
| 16 | "Wolf's Confession" Transliteration: "Vorufu no Kokuhaku" (Japanese: ヴォルフの告白) | Yukihiro Miyamoto | Kazuo Watanabe | July 21, 2004 | November 30, 2009 | |
| At Baby's mansion, Nina finds Ayse dead and then discovers that her captor, Goedelitz and all his men have been murdered. Meanwhile, General Wolf's men take away Tenma and Dieter who was captured earlier. On the way, Tenma enables Dieter to return to Frankfurt to warn the Turkish community of the plot. Tenma meets Wolf who accepts his role in the origins of Johan whom he found cold and starving to death with his sister near the Czechoslovakian border. He then says that Johan has killed everyone who was close to him, including Goedelitz and his men. He shows Tenma a message from Johan challenging him to meet at some warehouse ruins, then asks Tenma to kill Johan. Back in Frankfurt, Dieter and Heckel are captured by neo-Nazis. | ||||||
| 17 | "Reunion" Transliteration: "Saikai" (Japanese: 再会) | Tomoki Kobayashi | Ryū Nakamura | July 28, 2004 | December 14, 2009 | |
| Instead of meeting Johan, Tenma heads to the Turkish portion of Frankfurt to warn the residents of the neo-Nazi plot. Meanwhile, Nina confronts Baby while he is having dinner, but he refuses to disclose the location of the planned main fire. Numerous small fires are started, however they are relatively easy to extinguish. Nina finds and rescues Dieter, and Heckel who says the main fire will most likely be set near the wharves. At the river, Nina and Dieter find a neo-Nazi in a chemical warehouse, ready to start a blaze, but Dieter manages to extinguish the fuse by using a valuable carpet Heckel stole from a Turkish store. Later, as Tenma leaves to find Johan, Nina reveals that Johan is not one person because he has a split personality. | ||||||
| 18 | "The Fifth Spoonful of Sugar" Transliteration: "Gohaime no Satō" (Japanese: 五杯目の砂糖) | Shigetaka Ikeda | Tatsuhiko Urahata | August 4, 2004 | December 14, 2009 | |
| Mr. Rosso, the owner of an Italian restaurant where Nina used to work as Anna Liebert, picks her up after questioning by police. She recalls the time she spent working in the restaurant and took marksmanship lessons in the afternoons. When challenged by Nina, Rosso admits that he used to be a professional assassin. She leaves and continues her search for Johan. | ||||||
| 19 | "The Monster's Abyss" Transliteration: "Kaibutsu no Shin'en" (Japanese: 怪物の深淵) | Hiroshi Aoyama | Tomomi Yoshino | August 11, 2004 | December 21, 2009 | |
| Searching for an insight into Johan's personality, Tenma visits Dr. Rudy Gillen, a fellow student and academic rival at University who is now a practicing criminal psychoanalyst. Gillen intends to turn Tenma over to the authorities, but consults with one of his criminal patients in prison, Peter Jurgens[lower-alpha 1]. After the prisoner says he committed a murder for an unknown person and directs Gillen on where to find evidence that proves Johan exists, Gillen assists Tenma to escape. | ||||||
| 20 | "Journey to Freiham" Transliteration: "Furaihamu e no Tabi" (Japanese: フライハムへの旅) | Kentarō Nakamura | Tatsuhiko Urahata | August 18, 2004 | December 21, 2009 | |
| Tenma and Dieter hitch a ride with an elderly couple on the way to Freiham. Tenma wonders if the couple plan to turn him in when he realizes that the husband is a suspicious former police officer. He used to think that he could tell a criminal by their looks, but realized that it was not possible after his son committed a murder. The husband confirms that Tenma is a wanted criminal, however he believes that Tenma is innocent. | ||||||
| 21 | "A Wonderful Holiday" Transliteration: "Shiawase na Kyūjitsu" (Japanese: 幸せな休日) | Tōru Takahashi | Masahiro Hayashi | August 25, 2004 | December 28, 2009 | |
| In Nice, the former detective Muller, who with Mesner killed Nina's foster parents, is newly married and enjoys a good life. He hires a private detective to investigate the whereabouts of Tenma, Nina and Mesner, but when the detective arrives he is shot by Muller's bodyguard Roberto, who is working for Johan. Muller realizes that he was used to lure Nina into a trap, and Roberto takes Nina, promising to take her to Johan despite Roberto's plan to kill Nina, and leave her with his subordinates. However, Muller suddenly arrives and rescues her, although he is shot in the process. | ||||||
| 22 | "Lunge's Trap" Transliteration: "Runge no Wana" (Japanese: ルンゲの罠) | Yukihiro Miyamoto | Kazuyuki Fudeyasu | September 1, 2004 | December 28, 2009 | |
| Lunge determines that the murder of a wealthy, middle-aged, childless couple does not fit the usual modus operandi of the serial murders, but uses it as an opportunity to lure Tenma to a trap. He actually suspects the nephew who stands to inherit their estate. Tenma visits the murder scene and also realizes that it is a copy-cat murder. Lunge catches Tenma in the house, but, before Lunge can arrest him, he is critically wounded by the nephew, the real criminal. As he lies bleeding, Lunge still insists that Johan is the alter ego of Tenma, but when he falls unconscious, Tenma treats his injury. | ||||||
| 23 | "Eva's Confession" Transliteration: "Eva no Kokuhaku" (Japanese: エヴァの告白) | Yūzō Satō | Ryū Nakamura | September 8, 2004 | January 4, 2010 | |
| Eva Heinemann is arrested for public drunkenness and is also homeless after not paying her rent. She hooks up with Roberto, whom she was drinking with the night before her arrest. After realizing that she has photos of Johan, Roberto presses her about her link to Johan and Eva reveals that she saw Johan at the construction site in Dusseldorf on the night Junkers was killed. Roberto prepares to kill her. | ||||||
| 24 | "The Men's Dining Table" Transliteration: "Otoko-tachi no Shokutaku" (Japanese: 男達の食卓) | Shigetaka Ikeda | Masatoshi Hakata | September 15, 2004 | January 4, 2010 | |
| To save her life, Eva offers Roberto the photos of Johan in exchange for information about Tenma's location. Roberto tells her that Tenma is currently treating a wounded mob boss at a country house near Füssen. Roberto and Eva approach the country house and Roberto kills the bodyguard who just manages to warn his boss before he dies. Roberto doesn't trust Eva and shoots her in the leg, and as she lies bleeding, she tells Dieter to run as Tenma would never come to save her. However, Tenma arrives and treats her wounds, then leaves her with the mob boss while he goes to Munich. | ||||||
| 25 | "The Thursday Boy" Transliteration: "Mokuyōbi no Seinen" (Japanese: 木曜日の青年) | Kentarō Nakamura | Masahiro Hayashi | September 29, 2004 | January 11, 2010 | |
| In Munich, Karl Neumann is one of the students who reads passages of Latin on Tuesdays to the elderly, blind and very wealthy Hans Georg Schuwald. Karl encounters fellow student Lotte Frank, who does housekeeping for Schuwald and whom she is using as the subject for her research paper. Karl agrees to join her in tailing Schuwald when he goes out late at night. They discover a woman claiming to be Margot Langer, the mother of his illegitimate son, who turns out to be Karl, however the student who reads on Thursdays also claims to be Schuwald's son. Lotte discovers that the Thursday boy is Edmund Farren, when they go to visit him, they find him dead in his dormitory from an apparent suicide. Later, they encounter Johan Liebert who has enrolled in their university and is Schuwald's Friday's reader. | ||||||
| 26 | "The Secret Woods" Transliteration: "Himitsu no Mori" (Japanese: 秘密の森) | Nanako Shimazaki | Namiko Abe | October 6, 2004 | January 11, 2010 | |
| Schuwald hires a private investigator named Richard Braun to determine the truth behind Farren' suicide. During a discussion with his psychotherapist Dr. Julius Reichwein, Braun confirms something is amiss with the death. Meanwhile, Johan offers to help Karl reconcile with his long lost father, whom he believes is Schuwald. When Karl and Lotte take Schuwald to visit a lake which is now a construction site, Johan arrives and paints a verbal picture that convinces Schuwald that he is standing on the edge of a beautiful lake. | ||||||
| 27 | "Pieces of Evidence" Transliteration: "Shōko no Shina" (Japanese: 証拠の品) | Kenji Nagasaki | Yūki Saitō | October 13, 2004 | January 18, 2010 | |
| Braun tries to reconcile with his ex-wife while dealing with his past alcoholism and again visits Reichwein, and begins to suspect Karl is involved in Farren's death. Meanwhile, Karl is about to formalize his adoption with his foster parents, but Johan intervenes enables Karl to reconcile with his real father, Schuwald. | ||||||
| 28 | "Just One Case" Transliteration: "Tada Hitotsu no Jiken" (Japanese: ただ一つの事件) | Yukihiro Miyamoto | Ryōsuke Nakamura | October 20, 2004 | January 18, 2010 | |
| Schuwald informs Braun that the case involving the suicide of Farren is closed, but Braun becomes suspicious now that Karl and Johan are caring for Schuwald. Braun decides to review all his unsolved homicide cases, but is haunted by the case that caused his alcoholism and error of judgement which caused his dismissal from the police force. His investigations all seem to have a connection with Schuwald and when he presents his findings to Reichwein, the doctor also reveals that Gillen believes that the name Johan is involved in murders aimed at isolating Schuwald. | ||||||
| 29 | "Execution" Transliteration: "Shokei" (Japanese: 処刑) | Ryōsuke Nakamura | Ryōsuke Nakamura | October 27, 2004 | January 25, 2010 | |
| Braun begins to observe Johan and investigate his origins, while Reichwein asks Gillen to question his criminal patient Peter Jurgens about Johan. Meanwhile, Braun discovers that the real Johan Liebert died at the age of two. When Gillen shows a photo of Johan to Jurgens, it triggers painful memories and he promptly commits suicide with Gillen's pen. At night, Johan visits Braun and manipulates him into a state of deep regret. Johan then offers Braun a bottle of whiskey on the rooftop of a building. Later, Reichwein is informed that Richard Braun is dead. | ||||||
| 30 | "A Certain Decision" Transliteration: "Aru Ketsui" (Japanese: ある決意) | Tōru Takahashi | Ryū Nakamura | November 3, 2004 | January 25, 2010 | |
| Reichwein muses over the death of his friend and patient Richard Braun with Gillen who suspects foul play. Reichwein retraces Braun's last steps and determines his death was not an accident, but a murder. Two thugs are hired to kill Reichwein, however he survives. Later, Roberto attempts to kill Reichwein at his office, but he is saved by Tenma who has been shadowing him. | ||||||
| 31 | "Under Broad Daylight" Transliteration: "Hakujitsu no Moto e" (Japanese: 白日の下へ) | Tomoki Kobayashi | Masatoshi Hakata | November 10, 2004 | February 1, 2010 | |
| Reichwein arranges for Tenma to live in a safe-house while he and Gillen attempt to figure out their next steps. However, Tenma leaves the safe-house and leaves Dieter with Reichwein while he tries to track down Johan, and purchases a sniper rifle. | ||||||
| 32 | "Sanctuary" Transliteration: "Sei'iki" (Japanese: 聖域) | Kentarō Nakamura | Yūki Saitō | November 17, 2004 | February 1, 2010 | |
| Lotte has a chance encounter with Nina and discovers that they are both researching Schuwald and strike up a friendship. Later, Lotte realizes that Nina looks like Johan. Tenma prepares to kill Johan at a forest sanctuary, but is unable to carry it through after meeting an old soldier who does not want bloodshed in the forest. | ||||||
| 33 | "Scene of a Child" Transliteration: "Kodomo no Jōkei" (Japanese: 子供の情景) | Shigetaka Ikeda | Masahiro Hayashi | December 1, 2004 | February 8, 2010 | |
| Some children die while participating in a dangerous game of dare suggested by Johan to determine if they were "chosen". Dieter manages to convince a seriously injured boy who survived the game not to commit the stunt again. Schuwald announces a large donation of antique books to the University of Munich and a ceremony to commemorate the donation is planned. At the library, Johan passes out after he looks at the picture book "Obluda" by Emil Scherbe about a monster with no name. Tenma prepares to kill Johan at the book donation ceremony. | ||||||
| 34 | "At the End of the Darkness" Transliteration: "Yami no Hate" (Japanese: 闇の果て) | Yukihiro Miyamoto | Tatsuhiko Urahata | December 8, 2004 | February 8, 2010 | |
| Johan recovers from his fainting spell and responds to an invitation to go to visit the Red Hindenberg, in the red-light district, the apartment of the old prostitute who had been impersonating Karl Neumann's mother Margot Langer. She tries to blackmail Johan, but Roberto kills her. Meanwhile, Tenma visits a local doctor to find out about the prostitute's death and finds the teenage daughter of a doctor treating undocumented immigrants. He decides to help her treat the waiting patients. | ||||||
| 35 | "A Hero With No Name" Transliteration: "Nanashi no Hīrō" (Japanese: 名なしのヒーロー) | Minami Akitsu | Tatsuhiko Urahata | December 15, 2004 | February 15, 2010 | |
| Lunge questions Tenma's former friends from Japan to learn more about his suspect, even missing an appointment with his daughter to see his new grandson. However, one of the men has the book Johan was apparently looking at when he fainted, which Lunge examines and translates some of the words. Reichwein confronts the "foster parents" of Johan with the facts of his activities and warns them that their lives are in danger, but they refuse to believe him. Tenma sneaks into the library with the rifle the night before the book donation ceremony. | ||||||
| 36 | "A Monster of Chaos" Transliteration: "Konton no Kaibutsu" (Japanese: 混沌の怪物) | Kōjirō Tsuruoka | Kazuyuki Fudeyasu | December 22, 2004 | February 15, 2010 | |
| Reichwein confronts Schuwald with evidence about Johan, but Schuwald refuses to take any action, already suspecting that Johan plans a take-over of his affairs. Later, Reichwein realizes that Schuwald is Johan's next target and Lunge suspects that Schuwald to be Tenma's next target, and both separately head to the library. Lotte confronts Nina at the train station about being the twin sister of Johan after reading the book that made Johan collapse. | ||||||
| 37 | "A Monster Without a Name" Transliteration: "Namae no Nai Kaibutsu" (Japanese: なまえのないかいぶつ) | Atsushi Takahashi | Ryōsuke Nakamura | January 12, 2005 | February 22, 2010 | |
| Nina reads the picture book, "A Nameless Monster", which triggers some memories and Nina tells Lotte that Johan is her brother. Nina, then, decides to confront Johan at the book donation ceremony. During the ceremony, Tenma is unable to kill Johan and while he delays, he is disarmed by Roberto, however, before Roberto can kill Schuwald, a fire set by one of Johan's accomplices engulfs the library, creating hysteria and fear. Tenma manages to grab a handgun and points it at Roberto and a shot is heard. | ||||||
| 38 | "The Demon in Our Eyes" Transliteration: "Waga Me no Akuma" (Japanese: 我が目の悪魔) | Kentarō Nakamura | Ryōsuke Nakamura | January 19, 2005 | February 22, 2010 | |
| Tenma shoots Roberto, then fires again and Roberto falls over the balcony. The fire inside the library spreads, but the people are trapped inside by locked by doors. Tenma helps the people escape by shooting out the doors. Meanwhile, Nina has entered the building, but neither she nor Tenma can bring themselves to shoot Johan. Suddenly, the canopy over the stage collapses in flames, engulfing Nina and Schuwald. Back at Schuwald's residence, Karl finds the results of an investigation by Schuwald into his mother's life and her disappearance. | ||||||
| 39 | "The Hell in His Eyes" Transliteration: "Me no Naka no Jigoku" (Japanese: 目の中の地獄) | Kenji Nagasaki | Kazuyuki Fudeyasu | January 26, 2005 | March 1, 2010 | |
| Lunge initially suspects that Tenma set the fire and planned to assassinate Schuwald. But after Karl asks Lunge to search for Johan, who had not been seen since the fire, and Lunge visits Johan's former apartment - he begins to believe that Johan is real. Schuwald asks Karl to deliver a message to someone in Dresden. Nina leaves the hospital and undergoes psychological analysis with Dr. Reichwein and Dr. Gillen to recover her memories which involve 3 frogs and a bridge. She leaves to find Tenma, and Dieter insists on leaving with her. In Dresden, Tenma meets Karl who tells him that the twins' mother is alive and living in Prague. | ||||||
| 40 | "Grimmer" Transliteration: "Gurimā" (Japanese: グリマー) | Yukihiro Miyamoto | Tatsuhiko Urahata | February 2, 2005 | March 1, 2010 | |
| Wolfgang Grimmer is a freelance journalist and former East German investigating allegations of child abuse and psychological reprogramming in former East Germany orphanages. While on a train to Prague, he shares a booth with Tenma. When guards arrive to arrest Tenma, Grimmer assists him to escape and then helps him across the border. In Prague, Grimmer confronts Petrov, the former director of 511 Kinderheim about his involvement. | ||||||
| 41 | "The Ghost of 511" Transliteration: "511 no Bōrei" (Japanese: 511の亡霊) | Tomoki Kobayashi | Masahiro Hayashi | February 9, 2005 | March 8, 2010 | |
| Grimmer presses Petrov for records of 511 Kinderheim, but he denies that he was present during the revolt. Grimmer tails Petrov, then realizes that he is running a boy's orphanage. He plays soccer with the boys from Petrov's orphanage, and when they return they see notice a woman who resembles Anna Liebert leaving the orphanage. They find the assistant Anna dead and Petrov mortally wounded. Before he dies, Petrov blames Johan for the disaster at 511 Kinderheim and provides Grimmer with a key to a safety deposit box containing evidence of Johan's early years. | ||||||
| 42 | "The Adventures of the Magnificent Steiner" Transliteration: "Chōjin Shutainā no Bōken" (Japanese: 超人シュタイナーの冒険) | Tomohiko Itō | Masatoshi Hakata | February 16, 2005 | March 8, 2010 | |
| Inspector Filip Zeman of the Prague police questions Grimmer about the death of Petrov and a blonde woman suspected of the crime. After leaving the police station, Grimmer is abducted by former members of the Czechoslovakian StB, Chesmir Mirat, Yakov Suacek. They and Filip Zeman who torture him for Petrov's safety deposit box key, but he passes out. The woman resembling Anna interrupts the interrogation by shooting one of the StB members dead. Grimmer wakes up and find the three men dead and concludes that his alter ego, "The Magnificent Steiner", is responsible. | ||||||
| 43 | "Detective Suk" Transliteration: "Sūku Keiji" (Japanese: スーク刑事) | Kanji Wakabayashi | Ryū Nakamura | February 23, 2005 | March 15, 2010 | |
| Detective Suk is called to the scene of the brutal triple murder; his superior, Inspector Filip Zeman, and two other men. The other men are former members of the Czechoslovakian StB, Chesmir Mirat and Yakov Suacek, and Jan Suk suspects Grimmer. Meanwhile Suk meets an attractive woman, who looks like Anna Liebert, in a bar. Later, Head Detective Patera tells Suk that Zeman was investigating former StB members in the Prague police force. Suk finds Zeman's notes in a locker indicating that Patera and Janacek were in the StB, and notifies the Commissioner Hamrlik who is later revealed to be protecting the former StB members. While Suk meets the woman again, Hamrlik Patera and Janacek die after eating candy give to Patera by the same woman. | ||||||
| 44 | "The Two Darkness" Transliteration: "Futatsu no Yami" (Japanese: 二つの闇) | Atsushi Takahashi | Yūki Saitō | March 2, 2005 | March 15, 2010 | |
| The murder of Commissioner Hamrlik and the two corrupt officers stirs up a media frenzy. Suk questions the boys from Petrov's orphanage who say a woman was Petrov's killer. Tenma arrives in Prague and obtains some information about the mother of the Liebert Twins. Suk tries to get close to the woman who calls herself Anna Liebert, but she is later revealed to be Johan in disguise. | ||||||
| 45 | "The Afterimage of a Monster" Transliteration: "Kaibutsu no Zanzō" (Japanese: 怪物の残像) | Kenji Nagasaki | Kazuyuki Fudeyasu | March 9, 2005 | March 22, 2010 | |
| Nepela, the new Prague Police Commissioner suspects that Suk may be involved in the deaths of Hamrlik and the two corrupt officers and assigns Detectives Novak and Zanda to follow him. Suk meets Grimmer and they retrieve the safety deposit box which contains research documents and a cassette tape which contains an interview of a drugged Johan in which the describes himself as containing a monster. While searching Suk's apartment, Detective Novak and Detective Zanda are killed by Johan masquerading as Anna. | ||||||
| 46 | "The Point of Contact" Transliteration: "Setten" (Japanese: 接点) | Shigetaka Ikeda | Kazuyuki Fudeyasu | March 16, 2005 | March 22, 2010 | |
| Tenma finds out about the murder of Commissioner Hamrlik and the two corrupt officers through poisoned candy and endeavors to find Suk, who has given his mother the tape. Tenma visits Suk's mother in hospital, but she has dementia and poor memory. Suk and Grimmer hide out in an abandoned building, but they are attacked and Suk is critically wounded. Grimmer goes into a rage and beats his assailants senseless. Tenma arrives on the scene and treats Suk and the other injured men. Grimmer reveals that he was at 511 Kinderheim and explains the origins of alter-ego, "The Magnificent Steiner", a weakling who transforms into a raging musclebound hero when threatened, but with no recollection of the events afterwards. | ||||||
| 47 | "The Door to a Nightmare" Transliteration: "Akumu no Tobira" (Japanese: 悪夢の扉) | Kentarō Nakamura | Kazuyuki Fudeyasu | March 23, 2005 | March 29, 2010 | |
| Nina and Dieter arrive in Prague, but she is shocked when residents call her "Anna" and she begins to recall memories form her childhood. Tenma and Grimmer finds that Suk has been removed from the hospital, and Captain Karel Ranke, a former top member of the StB proposes to release Suk to Tenma and Grimmer in exchange for the tape and research materials for a client in Germany. They refuse, however, Grimmer's suddenly remembers Adolf Reinhardt who was kind to him at 511 Kinderheim. While they do not reach an agreement, Ranke does mention that Franz Bonaparta was heavily involved in the care of the Liebert Twins. Bonaparta was also the author of a children's picture book "The Nameless Monster", and was living at the "Red Rose Mansion". Meanwhile, Nina and Dieter find the apartment Nina shared with her twin brother and their mother, which triggers more of Nina's memories. | ||||||
| 48 | "The Most Frightening Thing" Transliteration: "Ichiban Kowaimono" (Japanese: 一番怖いもの) | Yukihiro Miyamoto | Shingō Nishikawa | March 30, 2005 | March 29, 2010 | |
| Nina is confused by her recent memories. After confirming Suk's safety, Grimmer and Tenma agree to deliver the tape and research materials to Ranke. However, when they visit Suk's mother, they discover the research materials gone, and Johan Liebert has recorded a message on the tape for Tenma. Meanwhile, Inspector Lunge decides to take a "holiday" in Prague, and questions an associate, Commissioner Nepela on the recent developments and asks Nepela to translate a copy of picture book "the Nameless Monster". Lunge also questions Suk's colleagues about the recent events, and researches the author Franz Bonaparta and his aliases, Emile Scherbe and Klaus Poppe. | ||||||
| 49 | "The Cruelest Thing" Transliteration: "Ichiban Zankoku na Koto" (Japanese: 一番残酷なこと) | Tōru Takahashi | Kazuyuki Fudeyasu | April 6, 2005 | April 5, 2010 | |
| The children from Petrov's former orphanage try to find the blonde woman and prove Grimmer's innocence. Meanwhile, Lunge questions Suk's mother in the hospital about a blonde lady who visited, but she says the woman had the voice of a man. The boy named Milosh encounters Johan disguised as Anna Liebert. She sends him to a nearby red light district in a fruitless search to find his mother, and convinces Milosh that he is not wanted. Grimmer and Tenma find Johan's apartment, but Johan and Milosh have already left. As Milosh wanders the streets, the experience makes him depressed and suicidal. However, Grimmer and Tenma find Milosh in time, creating an unexpected intense emotional experience for both Grimmer and Milosh. | ||||||
| 50 | "The Rose Mansion" Transliteration: "Bara no Yashiki" (Japanese: バラの屋敷) | Kanji Wakabayashi | Masahiro Hayashi | April 13, 2005 | April 5, 2010 | |
| Lunge visits Suk in the StB hospital and suggests that the one responsible for his situation may be the last person he may suspect (a reference to Johan masquerading as Anna). Lunge meets Ranke and reveals that he was unable to obtain information on the whereabouts of Franz Bonaparta, who lived in the Mansion of Red Roses. Ranke reveals that it was abandoned after all the political prisoners and researchers were killed in one day. Lunge obtains permission to investigate the mansion and exposes a hidden room reeking of antiseptic, suspecting that it is the site of a massacre. There is also a portrait of a woman who looks like Anna Liebert. Meanwhile, Tenma visits Zoback, a previous publisher of Franz Bonaparta's work, but after Tenma leaves, Zoback calls the police. Grimmer tells Tenma that he will take the blame for Johan’s crimes and they part ways, however the Prague police suddenly arrive and arrest Tenma. | ||||||
| 51 | "A Monster's Love Letter" Transliteration: "Kaibutsu no Rabu Retā" (Japanese: 怪物のラブレター) | Kōjirō Tsuruoka | Ryū Nakamura | April 20, 2005 | April 12, 2010 | |
| Hans Georg Schuwald, with the help of Reichwein, re-explores his past with Karl Neumann's mother, Helenka Novakova and recalls her dear friend in Prague near the Three Frogs who had twins, a boy and a girl. As news of Tenma's arrest spreads, his former friends and patients react with shock and disbelief, and vow to help him. Suk tries to leave the hospital to help Tenma, but is stopped by Detective Bradec and Detective Stransky who inform him that Grimmer sent documents taking responsibility for deaths of the police officers. Lunge also learns of Tenma's arrest, but he is more interested in the Mansion of Red Roses, where he finds a letter possibly addressed to the twins' mother. Tenma is deported back to Düsseldorf. | ||||||
| 52 | "Lawyer" Transliteration: "Bengoshi" (Japanese: 弁護士) | Shigetaka Ikeda | Masatoshi Hakata | April 27, 2005 | April 12, 2010 | |
| Prisoner Gunther Milch pretends to be sick, and when Tenma is called, Milch proposes they escape together. Former patients of Eisler Memorial Hospital enlist the aid of a lawyer named Fritz Vardemann to represent Tenma, and after visiting Tenma in prison, he agrees to take on the defense. Meanwhile, Eva returns to Düsseldorf, and after passing out following another drinking binge, she has a vision of seeing of Johan Liebert the night Adolf Junkers was murdered. Vardemann is called to the hospital when his wife goes into labor, so he asks for the lawyer named Alfred Baul to represent Tenma. However when Baul appears in prison, Tenma is shocked to see that he is Roberto who says that Eva Heinemann will be his next target. | ||||||
| 53 | "Determination" Transliteration: "Ketsui" (Japanese: 決意) | Nanako Shimazaki | Kazuyuki Fudeyasu | May 4, 2005 | April 19, 2010 | |
| After hearing Roberto's threat against Eva, Tenma decides to confess to all charges against him so he can be placed in the same transport van to a Federal Penetentary with the prisoner Gunther Milch who is planning an escape. On hearing the news of Tenma's confession, Eva remembers the time she was with Tenma and she treated him badly and decides to testify on his behalf. She calls Alfred Baul who arranges to visit her. | ||||||
| 54 | "Escape" Transliteration: "Dassō" (Japanese: 脱走) | Yukihiro Miyamoto | Kazuyuki Fudeyasu | May 11, 2005 | April 19, 2010 | |
| Gunther Milch's escape plan almost goes wrong when the prison van hits and almost kills his younger brother Gustav. However, Tenma manages to grab a gun and order the guards to release them. News of the escape is broadcast while Eva is waiting to meet lawyer Alfred Baul in her hotel lobby, however she overhears a phone conversation and recognizes Roberto's voice and realizes that he is after her. Along the road, Tenma forces Gunther to take Gustav to Eisler Memorial Hospital and then he and Gunther part ways. After Eva flees to her hotel room, there is a knock on the door which she hesitatingly answers. | ||||||
| 55 | "Room Number 402" Transliteration: "402 Gōshitsu" (Japanese: 402号室) | Tomohiko Itō | Tatsuhiko Urahata | May 18, 2005 | April 26, 2010 | |
| Tenma desperately tries to search for Eva before Roberto can reach her. However, when Tenma enters her hotel room, Eva is already gone. Meanwhile, Lunge returns to Düsseldorf and questions Vardemann about his father's past and links to Franz Bonaparta whom he believes was with the Czechoslovakian Secret Police. After Lunge leaves, Tenma accosts Vardemann in his car, but Vardemann confesses he knows nothing about the plot against Eva. While out Vardemann's house is ransacked, presumably for his father's notebook containing notes about Bonaparta and the Red Rose Mansion. Vardemann gives the notebook to Tenma and visits his wife and new baby girl in hospital. | ||||||
| 56 | "The Unending Journey" Transliteration: "Owaranai Tabi" (Japanese: 終わらない旅) | Atsushi Takahashi | Shingō Nishikawa | May 25, 2005 | April 26, 2010 | |
| Tenma heads towards the Red Rose Mansion in Prague, while Vardemann and Reichwein also make their way there. Meanwhile in Prague, Anna follows her memories and she finds the Red Rose Mansion with Dieter. When Nina enters the hidden room, a painful memory is triggered involving a room full of bodies and she faints. Later Nina and Dieter find themselves in the care of Jaromir Lipski, a struggling puppeteer. Lipsky shows Nina his large collection of children's picture books, including those by Jakub Farobek, Emil Scherbe, and Klaus Poppe and reveals that he was a student at the Red Rose Mansion. Meanwhile, Johan enters the Red Rose Mansion and sets it on fire. | ||||||
| 57 | "That Night" Transliteration: "Ano Hi no Yoru" (Japanese: あの日の夜) | Kenji Nagasaki | Yūki Saitō | June 1, 2005 | May 3, 2010 | |
| Nina recalls her and Johan's adoption by the Lieberts and their emigration to the West, and how on the night a visitor came, Johan shot the Lieberts and told her to shoot him. Tenma arrives at the burned out mansion, just as firefighter discovers a grave with the bones of up to forty-six people at the base of a rose bush. General Wolf's men take Tenma to see the dying general who tells the story of how he found the nameless twins, their only possession being the book "Monster Without a Name" from which he gave the boy the name Johan, possibly awakening something inside him. Nina, Dieter and Lipsky visit the ruins, but they take Dieter's suggestion to create new, happy memories. After Nina and Dieter leave, Lunge arrives at Lipsky's apartment and asserts that Lipsky is the son of Franz Bonaparta. | ||||||
| 58 | "Unwanted Job" Transliteration: "Iya na Shigoto" (Japanese: いやな仕事) | Ryōsuke Nakamura | Kazuyuki Fudeyasu | June 8, 2005 | May 3, 2010 | |
| Eva Heinemann's bodyguard Martin Reest, has been badly shot and is dying following a gunfight. As he is driven to see Dr. Tenma and he recounts the events that led to his predicament. He was given a job by The Baby and Peter Capek to escort Eva Heinemann from Düsseldorf to Frankfurt on the same day she encountered Roberto. After meeting Capek, she agrees to attend some exclusive parties and then goes on shopping spree, even buying clothes for Martin to groom him in the mold of Dr. Tenma. However, the return to her old role as a fashionable, high-class lady fails to live up to her expectations. | ||||||
| 59 | "The Man Who Saw the Devil" Transliteration: "Akuma wo Mita Otoko" (Japanese: 悪魔を見た男) | Shigetaka Ikeda | Kazuyuki Fudeyasu | June 15, 2005 | May 10, 2010 | |
| Martin recalls how he met Tenma for the first time while he was guarding Eva Heinemann. He recalls how Eva pointed out Johan at a party who Capek then introduced to a young man named Kristoff Sievernich. Later Capek ordered Eva killed as her job was over, but Martin decided to protect her instead. He attended the next party alone, and tailed Kristoff to his hotel only to find Kristoff expecting him. Kristoff then described Martin's life to date in detail and hit a nerve when he suggested that the women in Martin's life usually choose death. Martin then left just as Johan arrived at the apartment. | ||||||
| 60 | "The Man Who Knew Too Much" Transliteration: "Shirisugita Otoko" (Japanese: 知りすぎた男) | Yukihiro Miyamoto | Kazuyuki Fudeyasu | June 22, 2005 | May 10, 2010 | |
| Martin recalls how he decided to protect Eva and was involved in a gunfight with a hit team assigned to kill her. While she was able to escape, he was shot and mortally wounded. He finally meets Tenma and tells him that Capek is still involved with the experiments at the Red Rose Mansion which created Johan before finally succumbing to his wounds. Eva is heartbroken at the news of Martin's death and Tenma suggests that she head to Munich for protection under Reichwein. However, she alights from the train and obtains a gun, planning to kill the monster. | ||||||
| 61 | "The Door of Memory" Transliteration: "Kioku no Tobira" (Japanese: 記憶の扉) | Kentarō Nakamura | Ryū Nakamura | June 29, 2005 | May 17, 2010 | |
| Nina returns to the apartment that she lived in with her mother and Johan and encounters more painful memories. She returns to Munich and Reichwein where she volunteers for hypnosis to find the truth behind these memories, but she attacks Gillen when buried memories resurface. She leaves Reichwein's house two days later to try to stop Tenma from killing her brother. Meanwhile, Jan Suk and Fritz Vardemann interview former residents of the Red Rose Mansions to gather information on Franz Bonaparta's reading sessions with his picture books, and for Vardemann to find out more about his father's true involvement in Czechoslovakian politics. | ||||||
| 62 | "A Fun Dining Table" Transliteration: "Tanoshii Shokutaku" (Japanese: 楽しい食卓) | Nanako Shimazaki | Shingō Nishikawa | July 6, 2005 | May 17, 2010 | |
| While searching for Peter Capek in Frankfurt, Tenma is chased by police and is hit by a van. He awakes to find that he has a sprained ankle and was treated by a dentist named Milan Kolasch. Kolasch tells Tenma that Peter Capek was responsible for the riots that broke out in the Turkish Quarter of the city and the deaths of the loved ones of different nationalities who now live with Kolasch. Kolasch feels responsible because he brought Capek, his former childhood friend, to Frankfurt. Kolasch plans to kill Capek at a convention and Tenma tries to prevent him going. However, Kolasch fails in his attempt and is shot dead by police. Nina arrives in Frankfurt where she recognizes Peter Capek in a television news report of the assassination attempt. | ||||||
| 63 | "An Unrelated Murder" Transliteration: "Mukankei na Satsujin" (Japanese: 無関係な殺人) | Kanji Wakabayashi | Masatoshi Hakata | July 13, 2005 | May 24, 2010 | |
| Detective Benjamin Weisbach was one of the first investigators in the murder of the Liebert parents. On his last day before retirement, he escorts a convicted serial murderer named Rheinhard Dinger and questions him about why he committed the murders and Dinger dates it back to when he sheltered young twins and the boy encouraged his violent tendencies which Weisbach recognizes as the Liebert twins. At the same prison, Gillen is interviewing several murderers about why they also killed people who did not fit their usual modus operandi. They two meet and both realize that these criminals committed their atypical murders at the request of a young man who fits the description of Johan. | ||||||
| 64 | "The Baby's Depression" Transliteration: "Akanbō no Yūutsu" (Japanese: 赤ん坊の憂鬱) | Tōru Takahashi | Yūki Saitō | July 20, 2005 | May 24, 2010 | |
| The Baby expresses his concerns to Capek about Johan's program of killing people to hide the scandals of Kristoff Sievernich and whether they can control him. He also reveals that Nina Fortner has arrived in Frankfurt. Later, The Baby is assassinated by a prostitute, and his death sends shockwaves through Capek's organization. Capek becomes paranoid about who is loyal or not, and panicking, he kills one of his guards who is driving him to his villa. He makes it to his cottage where Johan is waiting for him and who says that Franz Bonaparta is still alive. | ||||||
| 65 | "Johan's Footprints" Transliteration: "Yohan no Ashiato" (Japanese: ヨハンの足跡) | Kōjirō Tsuruoka | Masahiro Hayashi | July 27, 2005 | June 21, 2010 | |
| The news of Milan Kolasch’s death devastates his friends and Tenma is even more determined to find Johan. He follows Kristoff to his apartment, but Eva is already there, prepared to kill Johan. When Capek's men pick up Nina, she prepares to kill Capek, but she pauses. Capek realizes his hold on his organization is crumbling and Johan is pulling the strings. The police search Milan Kolasch's house and discover that his target was Peter Capek. Eva accosts Kristoff demanding to know Johan's whereabouts, and he reveals that he and Johan were the only survivors of the massacre at 511 Kinderheim. Kristoff then grabs the gun from Eva, but before he can shoot, Tenma arrives. Shots are fired. | ||||||
| 66 | "Welcome Back" Transliteration: "Okaeri" (Japanese: おかえり) | Atsushi Takahashi | Masatoshi Hakata | August 3, 2005 | June 21, 2010 | |
| Capek reveals to Nina that she and her twin brother Johan are the products of an extensive eugenics experiment which he designed to breed "the perfect children" without their mother's knowledge. When pregnant, their mother unsuccessfully tried to escape, and after the children were born they were taken away. He then takes Nina to an abandoned building where Johan is waiting. Meanwhile, Tenma drives Kristoff to a hospital while Eva demands to know Johan's location. While Eva makes a phone call to the hospital at a payphone, Kristoff reveals Johan's location to Tenma who leaves without Eva. Nina enters the abandoned building and sees Johan, and memories come flooding back of when they fled Prague, and the people Johan killed that were kind to them. | ||||||
| 67 | "I'm Home" Transliteration: "Tadaima" (Japanese: ただいま) | Shigetaka Ikeda | Masahiro Hayashi | August 10, 2005 | June 28, 2010 | |
| Nina confronts Johan who presents her with a story of the brainwashing which happened at the Red Rose Mansion and the occasion when over 40 people were poisoned except Franz Bonaparta who survived. Suddenly, Nina realizes that she was the one who witnessed the deaths, not Johan, and it was she who ran home to find Johan dressed as her. The shock of this revelation nearly drives her take her own life, but she is saved by Tenma. She realizes that Johan took her experiences and made them his own. Capek then arrives and tells Tenma that he is going after Franz Bonaparta, however Capek is gunned down shortly afterwards by two members of his organization for the paranoid killing of his own guard earlier. Later, Johan visits one of his hired hitmen and shoots him, before leaving stating that the true end is where he must be. | ||||||
| 68 | "Ruhenheim" Transliteration: "Rūenhaimu" (Japanese: ルーエンハイム) | Yukihiro Miyamoto | Kazuyuki Fudeyasu | August 17, 2005 | June 28, 2010 | |
| Using a postcard provided by Lipsky, Lunge arrives in the quiet town of Ruhenheim. After being helped to his room in Hotel Versteck by the boy Wim Knaup, he encounters Grimmer who using the alias Neumayer. Everyone in town thinks they hear a gunshot, and Grimmer offers to find a lost dog as an opportunity to investigate the town. Lunge also explores the town and he again meets Wim who is abused by his drunkard father Herbert and bullied by other boys. Lunge recognizes Grimmer who alludes to an impending massacre in the town. Meanwhile, Henning and Franka Henich, an elderly working-class couple, realize that they have won the lottery and Henning buys guns fearing someone will try to steal their winnings. The local bullies tell Wim they dumped his bike near the "vampire's house", and when he goes there, he sees a murdered cat. He then encounters Grimmer and Lunge inside the house which is filled with sketches of the Liebert twins. As Conrad, the local café owner and jam-maker, is clearing vines he is approached by a stranger holding a gun. | ||||||
| 69 | "A Peaceful Home" Transliteration: "Yasuragi no Ie" (Japanese: 安らぎの家) | Kentarō Nakamura | Kazuyuki Fudeyasu | August 24, 2005 | August 30, 2010 | |
| Lunge tells Grimmer that something terrible may already be happening in Ruhenheim, a quiet town that appears to be filled with unhappy people. When the Henichs go to see Conrad, they find his murdered body. After being beaten up by the bullies again, Wim is offered a gun to kill them, while the elderly couple living at the hotel also offer his drunken father a gun. As Nina recovers in a hospital, she tells Tenma that Johan is orchestrating an event that will lead to his suicide, but will also involve the massacre of innocents. Tenma travels to Prague and meets Lipsky and asserts that his father Bonaparta, whose real name is Klaus Poppe, and Johan are probably in a town called Ruhenheim. Meanwhile, access to Ruhenheim is cut off because of heavy rain. Gunshots are heard and Lunge is suspicious of the elderly couple living in the hotel. | ||||||
| 70 | "The Town of Slaughter" Transliteration: "Satsuriku no Machi" (Japanese: 殺戮の町) | Kanji Wakabayashi | Masatoshi Hakata | August 31, 2005 | August 30, 2010 | |
| People in Ruhenheim are now being shot dead by outsiders and each other. Herman is ridiculed and refused service at the pub and leaves, then returns prepared to shoot them, but he finds everyone dead. Wim's bullies are shot dead, he thinks he shot them, but Grimmer finds the gun is still loaded. Both Grimmer and Lunge determine that the elderly man in the wheelchair was giving weapons to people in the town, and that the elderly owner of the Hotel Versteck is Bonaparta whose original name is Klaus Poppe. In Munich, Reichwein and Gillen show Nina an e-mail from Johan inviting her to Ruhenheim and Gillen agrees to escort her there. Back in Ruhenheim, the murders continue, led by Roberto. Bonaparta awaits his fate, prepared to die, but Grimmer swears that he will be publicly exposed. The Henichs arrive at the hotel, and using their weapons, Lunge decides to confront a ringleader who is reportedly at the Bergbach Hotel, while Grimmer prepares to mount defence at Bonaparta's hotel. Tenma arrives at Ruhenheim by foot and tries to evacuate some women and children. | ||||||
| 71 | "The Magnificent Steiner's Rage" Transliteration: "Chōjin Shutainā no Ikari" (Japanese: 超人シュタイナーの怒り) | Ryōsuke Nakamura | Masahiro Hayashi | September 7, 2005 | September 6, 2010 | |
| Grimmer binds the elderly couple as they prepare to repel any attacks. Tenma encounters Lunge who grudgingly apologizes for his previous accusations against the doctor. He asks Tenma take the waitress Else to the Hotel Versteck after she fled from Roberto. As Nina and Gillen rush to Ruhenheim, Lunge begins his assault at the Bergbach Hotel. Back at the Hotel Versteck, they come under heavy gunfire, the Henichs are wounded and the elderly couple are killed. Grimmer steps out to the streets to reason with the unknown assailants, however Else is shot dead just as she reaches him and he is shot as well. Grimmer's anger overwhelms him and he charges into the gunmen's building. Meanwhile, Nina and Gillen reach a path that leads to Ruhenheim and meet survivors who Gillen tells to call the authorities as Nina runs into the town. Grimmer is able to kill four of the assailants before Tenma arrives and he tells Tenma that he used his own anger instead of becoming the Magnificent Steiner to defeat his attackers. Before succumbing to his fatal injuries, Grimmer gives Tenma the letter Inspector Lunge found at the Red Rose Mansion and he finally experiences the emotion of sadness. Wim and Bonaparta arrive and mourn Grimmer's death. | ||||||
| 72 | "Man Without A Name" Transliteration: "Namae no Nai Otoko" (Japanese: 名前のない男) | Tōru Takahashi | Kazuyuki Fudeyasu | September 14, 2005 | September 6, 2010 | |
| Lunge finds Roberto at the Hotel Bergbach, but is shot. As the Henichs and Wim mourn Grimmer's death, Tenma reads the letter which was written by Bonaparta. Bonaparta confesses that he fell in love with the mother of the twins and had a change of heart, so he killed everybody at the mansion who knew about the experiment. Tenma and Bonaparta walk towards the Bergbach Hotel and Bonaparta says that he visited the Lieberts on the night of their murders to see the children and was aware of what happened later. Bonaparta admits that he created a monster and Tenma admits that he brought him back to life. In Hotel Bergbach Lunge and Roberto have shot each other and Roberto taunts Lunge about his failed family life. He says that Johan wants Tenma to be the last one left alive to see what Johan saw. Lunge manages to beat Roberto, and demands to know where Johan is. Meanwhile, Nina and Gillen arrive at the Hotel Versteck where Wim recognizes her from Bonaparta's paintings. She and Gillen go to the house containing drawings of the twins which triggers memories of the Red Rose Mansion poisoning and her mother telling the twins to flee. | ||||||
| 73 | "The Landscape of the End" Transliteration: "Owari no Fūkei" (Japanese: 終わりの風景) | Masayuki Kojima Kōjirō Tsuruoka | Kazuyuki Fudeyasu | September 21, 2005 | September 13, 2010 | |
| One of the few survivors, Herbert is still looking for his son Wim, blaming the "devil" for the deaths of the townspeople. Tenma, Wim, and Bonaparta arrive at the Hotel Bergbach when Johan arrives. Bonaparta attempts to shoot Johan but is gunned down by Roberto who soon dies of his own injuries. Johan wants Tenma to shoot him just as Nina and Gillen arrive and she tells Johan that she forgives him. However, Johan pulls a gun and threatens to kill Wim to force Tenma to shoot him. Herbert arrives and, seeing images of a horrible beast, shoots Johan in the head. With the massacre now over, authorities rush into the town and attempt to determine what happened from statements by Gillen and Inspector Lunge. Herbert is taken away for questioning over his shooting of Johan. Just as Tenma is recognized and about to be arrested, an ambulance worker arrives asking for Tenma's assistance. Johan is still alive with a bullet wound to his brain, and Lunge suggests that Tenma is the only qualified neurosurgeon who can save him. Later, Tenma prepares to operate and save Johan again. | ||||||
| 74 | "The Real Monster" Transliteration: "Hontō no Kaibutsu" (Japanese: 本当の怪物) | Kazuhisa Ōno | Tatsuhiko Urahata | September 28, 2005 | September 13, 2010 | |
| Some time after the events at Ruhenheim, Karl informs Schuwald that Tenma has been cleared of all charges and is now working for Doctors without Borders. Eva Heinemann informs Reichwein that she is now working as an interior designer and has overcome her anger at Tenma and her grief over Martin and gives him a scrapbook of clippings on Tenma. Suk, Vardemann, and Lunge pay their respects at Grimmer's grave where Lunge tells them that he is now a professor at the police academy and leaves a cold beer at the graveside. Otto Heckel gives information to Dieter for Tenma on the whereabouts of the twins' mother. Tenma visits her in Southern France and she tells him that she loved the father of her twins and wished revenge on those who killed him through her children. She also recalls how the children did not want to be abandoned by their mother and tells Tenma their real names. In Heidelberg Nina graduates from University. Tenma later visits an apparently comatose Johan and has a hallucination of Johan wondering if his mother chose Nina to be taken for the experiment to protect him, or had she mistaken him for his sister. As Tenma leaves the police hospital, Johan's bed is shown empty with the window open. | ||||||
Soundtrack
- Opening theme (Episode 1–74): "Grain" by Kuniaki Haishima
- Ending theme (Episode 1–32): "For the Love of Life" by David Sylvian.
- Ending theme (Episode 33–74): "Make it Home" by Fujiko Hemming.
Notes
- ↑ Based on Edmund Kemper
References
- General
- Specific
- ↑ MONSTER. Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on 1 October 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
External links
- Monster official anime website at Nippon TV (in Japanese)
- Official VAP Monster website (in Japanese)
- Monster (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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