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Monster

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Main Title	Monster (a1539)
Official Title	en Monster
Official Title	ja モンスター
Type	TV Series, 74 episodes
Year	07.04.2004 till 28.09.2005
Categories	Conspiracy, Horror, Seinen, Thriller, Tragedy, Violence – similar
Producers	Urasawa Naoki, Nippon Television Network, Shogakukan, VAP, MADHOUSE
Resources	Official page, ANN, AnimeNFO, Allcinema
Similar Anime	by Anime Planet help

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Dr. Kenzo Tenma is a young Japanese doctor working at the Eisler Memorial Hospital in Düsseldorf during the 80s. A highly accomplished brain surgeon, he appears to have everything on his plate: a promotion in the offing; the favor of the director of the hospital, Heinemann; and Heinemann’s daughter, Eva, as fiancée. However, Tenma grows increasingly dissatisfied with the political bias of the hospital for treating patients, and seizes his chance to change things after a strange massacre brings the twins Johan and Anna Liebert into his hospital. Johan has a gunshot wound to the head and Anna keeps muttering about killing, and Tenma decides to operate on Johan instead of a prominent politician. Johan is saved, but the politician dies. Tenma loses all his social standing and Eva as a consequence. However, Heinemann and other doctors in Tenma’s way are mysteriously murdered, and both children disappear from the hospital soon after. The police suspect Tenma, as he benefits greatly from this turn of events, but have no evidence, and so can do no more than question him.

At this point, the story advances to nine years later. Tenma is now the Chief of Surgery at Eisler Memorial Hospital. However, he is about to come face to face with a sociopath – a sociopath that he helped save.

A known criminal is found on the street, hit by a car. He comes under the care of Dr. Tenma, who observes him muttering about a “Monster”. Then one evening when Dr. Tenma comes back with a clock as a gift for the criminal, he finds the guard in front of the criminal’s room dead, and the criminal himself gone.

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Following his trail to the construction site of a half finished building near the hospital, he finds the man. The man, who has developed a sort of doctor-patient friendship with Dr. Tenma, warns him against coming closer, and pleads with him to run away. Tenma refuses, however, and the identity of the man holding a gun pointed at the criminal in the abandoned parking garage is revealed to be the boy whose life Tenma had saved nine years ago, Johan. Despite Dr. Tenma’s attempt to reason with him, Johan shoots the criminal, tells Tenma that he could never kill the man who had saved his life, then walks off into the night while Tenma is still too shocked to stop him. After this incident, Tenma is again suspected by the police, particularly Inspector Runge, and he tries to find more information about this ‘Johan’. He soon discovers that the boy’s sister, Nina, happily living the life of an adopted daughter to two caring parents, the only trace of her terrible past a few dreams she’s had. He discovers her on her birthday, and manages to prevent her from meeting her brother, but comes too late to prevent Johan from murdering her foster parents. As the show progresses, Tenma learns of the origins of this monster, from the former East Germany’s attempt to use a secret orphanage called Kinderheim 511 (where Johan came from) in order to create the “perfect soldiers” through “psychological reprogramming”, to the author of a children’s book which was used in a eugenics experiment in Czech Republic. He also learns about the scope of the atrocities this ‘Monster’ has committed, and he vows to fix the mistake he made when he saved Johan’s life.

While Tenma is the main character of Monster, the story also focuses heavily on those surrounding his search for Johan, such as Inspector Runge (who is investigating Johan’s various murders but pins them all on Tenma) and Nina Fortner (aka Anna Liebert, Johan’s twin sister), and a host of other characters, minor and major, whose lives have been shaped by the deeds of the monster named ‘Johan’.

Megami Paradise

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Genres Fantasy, Ecchi Number of episodes: 2 OVA Rating: Teenage

From Anidb: Mama Megami, the mother goddess and ruler of paradise is retiring. Her successor appoints a young mage named Lilith to be one of her guardians. Lilith’s first assignment is to recruit two more worthy guardians for the new Mama Megami. Not an easy task, as Stashia, the first candidate on Lilith’s short list is not interested. Lilith didn’t even have a chance to ask the second person on the list, a warrior named Juliana due to a misunderstanding caused by Stashia’s little sister Rurubell. Rurubell wants to be a guardian, but Lilith turned her down due to her very young age and lack of experience. Meanwhile, Paradise is under attack by an evil goddess who wants to dominate it, and it’s up to Lilith, Stashia, Rurubell, and Juliana to thwart the attackers.

Massugu Ni Ikou

kinda cute…

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Main Title	Massugu ni Ikou (a1029)
Official Title	ja まっすぐにいこう。
Synonym	Go forward, Let`s go straight ahead!
Short	MnI
Type	TV Series, 4 episodes
Year	18.08.2003 till 21.08.2003
Categories	Comedy, Daily Life – similar
Producers	Yumeta Company
Resources	ANN, AnimeNFO, Allcinema
Relations	sequel Massugu ni Ikou (2004)

HTML clipboard A talking dog is a beautiful story that you should have dreamt of as a child. But if you have forgotten about it, this is a reminder of that fable story. This is the story of a dog that talks, but ordinary people cannot hear his voice.

The main character, Mametaro, is an adventurous crossbreed dog. He loves his owner, Iku-chan and his girlfriend Hanako-chan very much. However, he just cannot stand Iku-chan’s friend, Akiyoshi.

During this story, which will be told from Mametaro’s point of view, the warm days of spring are finally here. The school and the riverbank, which is actually just an ordinary neighborhood for people, seems like a mysterious world that extends infinitely to little Mametaro and his friends. (animedb)

Animations by Charity & Co.

If you can’t seem to forgive someone,

pray for that person and keep praying for him or her

until you have removed the poison

of bitterness from your heart.

Read Psalm 19:14

A life growing in it’s purity and

devotion will be a more prayerful life.

Read Psalm 19:14

The kind of faith that will not stand all the weather

is worth nothing.

Read Proverbs 24:16

There is nothing wrong with people possessing riches.

The wrong comes when riches possess people.

Read Proverbs 10:22

Wealth is something entrusted to us by God,

something God doesn’t want us to trust. He want’s

us to trust Him.

Read Proverbs 10:22

The steps of a good man are ordered by

the Lord as well as his steps.

Read Isiah 40:29

More often than not, when something looks like it’s the absolute end,

it is really the beginning.

Read 2 Corinthians 4:8

Work is not always required, There is such a thing as

a sacred idleness.

Read Matthew 11:28-30

The Christian on his knees sees more than the

philosopher on tiptoe.

Read Psalm 19:14

God never hurries. There are no deadlines

against which He must work. To know

this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

Read Isaiah 40:29