#kenzou tenma

[drearyrie]

[gabstherium]

[jaxieus]

Wip

( Johan I hc is a pretty vocal crier )

[irohsteaa]

dr. Tenma and his Cinderella energy

[boughkeeperdain]

[kitsunigami]

Monster | Kenzo Tenma, icons

𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆/𝒓𝒆𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒈 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒅/𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆𝒅

[tacccja]

and you smile as you ease the gun from my hand

and i'm frozen with joy right where i stand

the world throws its light underneath your hair

[smoozls]

[jongwoojanu]

the fall of the great doctor tenma.

[tarakesya]

[leovoid]

“ There is something I only want you to hear Johan, back then when that Turkish woman confronted me... Are ALL lives worth saving? Should lives be considered EQUAL? Well? Whose life should I have saved? “ SOURCE - Unable to find it, but if someone could give me the link I will >.<

[vexture]

🩷Number please!🩷

A gift for @good-wine-and-cheese based on the song Hotline by The Sylvers :> love you lots I hope you enjoy!

[redlilly1412]

[jaxieus]

Johan things from twitter

Punk/emo Johan and eating a burger

Johan playing the ps2

[irohsteaa]

dr. Tenma getting tired of everyone's bs

[boughkeeperdain]

Honestly Naoki Urasawa's 'Monster' is such a well written story on so many levels.

My favourite part about it is that it's cyclical- the way it ends calls back to how it began. (Spoilers ahead)

Kenzo starts, and continuously stays this way, as someone who stays true to what he believes. He has a strong moral compass and won't really stray from it. He has the firm belief that all lives are created equally, which ultimately leads him to save Johan's life as a child.

Johan on the other hand believes that humans are only equal in death, and his end goal is to get Tenma to be the one to kill him, to understand the monster inside of him. If this were what happened then even that woukd be good writing- it was Tenma who saved him, and Tenma who would end him. Almost a poetic end for Johan, and would completely break down Tenma's morals and personal code of ethics.

But this isn't the case. Even when faced with Johan's likely death after he was shot (once again in the head), Kenzo makes the effort to save him- to go out of his way. Its comparable to the trolley problem on a way, and Kenzo takes the decisive action to try and make a change.

All lives are equal in the beginning, and all lives are equal at the end. An infallible ideology for our main character and brings us back to the start of saving Johan's life. And then we get the perfect end and callback to the start with the empty hospital bed, a mirror of Johan's first time in the hospital.

I quite like the ambiguity on whether Johan did survive or not, because both outcomes would have such different weight to them.