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One thing I love about Johan is that despite some of his actions being unbelievable and hard to make sense of, it all feels purposely written. He's *supposed* to be so competent that you're almost convinced he's supernatural. It makes him come across as way scarier than any other character in the series due to how realistically they're written.
That voice is so innocent like but it's also terrifying and to add on his looks, angel on the outside monster on the inside. Johan puts light yagami in his place. Props the voice actor. Edit. Light is a good villan btw.
Potential spoilers of characterization? I'm not really sure if this counts as spoilers cause it goes into my analysis of Johan as a person rather than plot points. Either way Mr. Style please don't read this. I do think it was a deliberate choice to make him like... the only more traditionally anime-esque looking person in the show. He looks attractive without it going overboard, like he looks idealized without his appearance being otherworldly in how he looks. Like you could conceive of a person in real life looking that dashing. His facial demeanors and his tone of voice also gives him this almost compassionate-understanding sort of air to everyone he talks to. Its only more terrible and horrifying when you realize there's almost nothing inside him, and that he only uses that demeanor because his destruction is genuinely enacted without a hint of malice.
@@tompac1044 I dont really think he looks that anime-esque. I mean, the way his features are drawn makes him look very good, possibly out of all the other characters. And partnered with his voice, it seems like he is the male lead to a shoujo manga or ikemen type character (iykwim) but over all he still looks "non-anime esque" compared to most other series. The choice to make him appealing is probably intentional, to add to the eeriness of it all.
@@TylerClearyeah I was gonna say, also characterization spoilers again. Griffith is more like an otherworldly sort of perfection in looks where it blends masculinity and femininity to create this literal angel sort of look. Johan looks more like an attempt at human-engineered attractiveness, or at least a fascist sort of picturesque version of it. Only makes it that much more funny that Johan doesn’t give a shit about ideas like superiority or anything of the sort.
I fell in love with this anime after I finished it because I realised how beautiful and amazing and realistic it was and then i watched like every reaction channel that reacted to it 😅
Pretty sure it's up to 15* murders at this point Hospital 3 Four couples (8 people) police officer 1 Junkers and his buddies 3* EDIT: miscounted his buddies
@godlikefish1193 your count is much more accurate, but Junkers only had 2 partners (four individuals in the crimes including Johan). So it should be 15?
@@zoxxzy Ah, I interpreted "the Slayer" as a separate person. Looking back on it they mention it being a group of three a couple times, so I think I got that wrong.
How/when does one become a monster? That's the real question and it has many potential answers. It's what makes this series so very fascinating. And this series is so deliberate with its slow pacing. Letting certain moments really linger, giving you time to think about what is happening. Also the realistic facial epressions really make you feel the weight of the situation, but also sometimes makes you wonder what the characters are thinking.
Great reaction to the real introduction of the greastest villain in anime/manga (and, for many, in all fiction). I can't wait to watch your next reactions to this 2004-2005 masterpiece. By the way, Johan's seiyu (Japanese voice actor) is Nozomu Sasaki. He is very known for being the one who dubs Tetsuo in the Akira movie (1988, which led to the first popularization of anime in the West beyond the traditional cartoons for children) and Mello in the Death Note series (2006-2007). As for what you say about his surname, it's a mistake in those subtitles. The surname is Liebert in almost all languages (the only example I know where they changed that translation was in the Spanish dubbed version, my native language (Monster is one of the two animes with a Spanish dub with a quality that reaches the level of the original Japanese dub; the other is Death Note), Liebert is translated as Liebheart).
This video REACTION is very excellent!👏👏👏 I am very satisfied. I was very happy that you mentioned Johan's voice, because it was a very important part of the animation. I also thought it was a great part of the animation that you really set that voice for that character.
I love that he gets excited watching monster, most of the time when reactors are this analytical and really smart, they don't tend to get this excited, but he's such a rare reactor, I really didn't expect this from watching the first reaction, really got best of both, i enjoy your reactions a lot!
I really like older anime because usually they had alot of episodes and had alot of time for character/story development They were slow (wich to me is a positive) Nowadays anime have 3 seasons of 12 episodes, it is too fast paced for me and does not have the necesary time for good character/story development. Before even if the anime had multiple seasons they had a minimum of 25 episodes per season. That is why i really liked monster, death note, evangelion and others of similar lenght And that is why those types of anime are known for amazing stories and characters
@@tompac1044 Yes, and the really good stuff tends to stick around while the bad or mediocre stuff disappears. So looking back at media it always seems like there's more good stuff in the old days.
It's been close to two decades since I've seen Monster, and Johan's voice *still* haunts me. Unforgettable one of a kind performance. P.S. That "ah go fk yourself" @ the episode ending was so real LOL It's the kind of show you just want to keep watching, you need those answers *right now*.
Yes, he’s calling the doctor, sensei. Sensei is a term of address for a teacher, instructor, doctor, lawyer, master, etc. The Japanese for teacher is kyoushi, I think, although a lot of westerners think it’s sensei. They hear the word being used all the time in the media and don’t realise it’s the term of address rather than the job title.
I wonder if the ‘you’re like my parent’ is a Japanese sentiment of ‘you’re responsible for me now’, since Tenma saved Junkers and Johan. I’ve seen in multiple anime/manga a sentiment of ‘you’ve imposed your will on my life/wellbeing, so now it falls to you now that you’ve done that.’ I’ve seen the phrase usually as ‘take responsibility (for me/my actions/my well-being)’. Usually in response to having helped someone direly - otherwise it seems a little bit of a queer turn of phrase. I can’t believe I didn’t catch the connection between ‘cuckoo child’ and ‘cuckoo clock’! That’s amazing! In the UK it’s called a ‘changeling’ and is considered a false child placed by faeries to replace a kidnapped child.
Regarding the endings -- you might want to watch them, actually. They aren't spoiling anything directly, but they keep changing very slowly over the course of the anime.
Hi, japanese speaker here. Clarification for the scene where anna shambles trough the hospital whispering "kill me." Actually she doesnt specify the object so really it could be "kill anything." Here the translator went "kill me" but it could be "kill the aliens" ov as we know now maybe "kill him"? Oh also, the liebert/leibert thing you mentionned? Probably nothing more than a typo… judging by how it's pronounced in japanese i guess it should be "liebert." I discovered your content like a week ago, i love it. Keep it coming
"He should call the police" In 1995, where mobile Phones where still a rarity. I guess Tenma didn't had a mobile phone, because he did not seem it necessary in his day to day life, unlike nowadays :D And Junkers could've run anywhere and be killed immediatly, because we know that the killer already killed the police officer. Sure, Tenma reacted irrationaly in this moment because he cares for his patients, but him calling the police wouldn't make him less a suspect because he could've been an accomplice in this since the candy incident happened AGAIN in the hospital he's in. Smth, Johan probably deliberately planted to get the trail of of him.
I don't understand how Johan and Mr. Junkers actually end up together in that parking building. I find it hard to believe that Johan just waited there for him and anticipated him to go there... it's way too random to be honest. If anything it's likely that Johan after giving the policemen the candy just waited somewhere around the hospital for Junkers to then follow and corner him. But what is weird is that Tenma seemed to be too close to Mr. Junkers to not have seen Johan follow him. The distance could have been greater than what the shots made it seem, but I don't like that argument because it means we can't trust the visualization. Does someone have a logical explanation?
I don't like that people call Monster a "realistic" manga, naturalistic. Johan is very clearly in the boundary of super-natural on purpose, many feats of his during these first episodes are impossible to any people let alone a child, but it adds to the sublimity. You could find logical explanations for everything, but keeping them foggy is why Johan is scary. How would he know or enter such places, how would he predict any of that, simple, no one could.
@@Iyalo-cw7eb It's realistic by the standards of dramatic storytelling. In stories, sometimes characters are able to perform feats that strain the credulity, but are still within the realm of possibility. Also, there are some accepted conventions of dramatic storytelling that are pretty much impossible in real life, but are there for the sake of convenience, such as being able to knock people unconscious for prolonged periods of time. We call these stories realistic not because they depict things in a way that is likely or plausible to happen in a real life, but because they don't break the laws of physics (or at least don't do it too overtly) and they are consistent within the story universe (or the secondary world, if we go the Tolkien route). Something similar is happening here -- Johan's manipulation and orchestration abilities would seem highly dubious in real life, but we accept them as part of the dramatic conventions we expect from villains. The same thing applies to people being in the right place at the right time, characters narrating their innermost thoughts for the sake of the audience, etc. Monster is furthermore painstakingly taking into account the details of its settings and characters and it doesn't break the fourth wall in the way most anime does with, say, chibi depictions of characters or a narrator or a beach episode. I think this is actually one of the major reasons people call the anime adaptation realistic -- because it looks and feels realistic.
You could say that the unfinished building is the only close by, accessible building Mr. Junker could enter to hide. All finished buildings are at that time locked and Junkers fear compelled him to hide inside a building because he felt revealed outside. Maybe it's even his instinct as criminal to avoid being outside but always hide in buildings for a better chance to escape. And Johan is supposed to feel otherworldly in his abilities because he is "so good". His intuitive human reading abilities seem to normal humans like magic. He anticipated it! But we can only guess, because we never get his inner monologue and the only information that is given is that he worked with Junker long enough to have him figured out completely. Plus Johan ALWAYS gathers all the, to him available information about a person before he even contacts them, maybe even spies on them to get a better feel before that. And he never stops to improve his knowledge of you but always reads you! An analogy of how good his intuitive reading skills are is: It's like you studied for decades mathematics and all the rules, and then a young genius comes along, and solves a problem in mere months you struggled decades to solve. It seems like magic, like how could he see those things that you where blind for DECADES, even after he explains it to you!
Urasawa writes very classical narratives, the values characters hold, the setting and events with well demarcated personalities which all contribute to a main theme and nothing else. Later we'll find a more experimental style of development (which ultimately turns classic in conclusion) for which he became consecrated and repeated throghout his thrillers (20th century boys and Billy Bat). *Not a spoiler I'm talking about structure, that is, the way we get from B to C
Sensei can mean various things, but in essence it's a respectful suffix/title for learned people, especially teachers of all stripes (even your sports trainer might be sensei), but also lawyers, doctors, artists, novelists, etc -- people who are distinguished in their field either in a scholarly way or in that they have mastered something.
I disagree with your opinion that Tenma's approach to the value of life is naive. In my opinion, since Tenma believes that every life is worth it, he will save anyone, even a murderer, because who is he to administer justice. That's why we have a legal system. The task of law is to bring justice, not the doctor's. I fully agree with Kenzou's behavior here, his calling as a doctor is to save lives.
You could reverse the question: Who is he to judge that every life is worth it? It being his job to save everyones life is independent of his beliefs or worldview. The justice system judges, not him.
@@DundG The problem is that this is not a "job" for Tenma, that's who he is, he is a doctor, that's why his worldview is what it is, even if he had a murderer bleeding out in front of him, he would save his life, which doesn't mean he protects that person from justice, he is simply not the one who imposes punishment here, that is why we have created appropriate systems for this and that's why he reports issue to the police. I just agree with Tenma's approach, if I were a doctor I would act this way.
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One thing I love about Johan is that despite some of his actions being unbelievable and hard to make sense of, it all feels purposely written. He's *supposed* to be so competent that you're almost convinced he's supernatural. It makes him come across as way scarier than any other character in the series due to how realistically they're written.
That voice is so innocent like but it's also terrifying and to add on his looks, angel on the outside monster on the inside.
Johan puts light yagami in his place.
Props the voice actor.
Edit. Light is a good villan btw.
Potential spoilers of characterization? I'm not really sure if this counts as spoilers cause it goes into my analysis of Johan as a person rather than plot points. Either way Mr. Style please don't read this.
I do think it was a deliberate choice to make him like... the only more traditionally anime-esque looking person in the show. He looks attractive without it going overboard, like he looks idealized without his appearance being otherworldly in how he looks. Like you could conceive of a person in real life looking that dashing.
His facial demeanors and his tone of voice also gives him this almost compassionate-understanding sort of air to everyone he talks to. Its only more terrible and horrifying when you realize there's almost nothing inside him, and that he only uses that demeanor because his destruction is genuinely enacted without a hint of malice.
@@tompac1044 I dont really think he looks that anime-esque. I mean, the way his features are drawn makes him look very good, possibly out of all the other characters. And partnered with his voice, it seems like he is the male lead to a shoujo manga or ikemen type character (iykwim) but over all he still looks "non-anime esque" compared to most other series. The choice to make him appealing is probably intentional, to add to the eeriness of it all.
@@ArtsyLaz05 yeah, probably an exaggeration on my part using that descriptor lol.
@@tompac1044very similar thing with Griffith, although Johan definitely looks more like a real person.
@@TylerClearyeah I was gonna say, also characterization spoilers again.
Griffith is more like an otherworldly sort of perfection in looks where it blends masculinity and femininity to create this literal angel sort of look. Johan looks more like an attempt at human-engineered attractiveness, or at least a fascist sort of picturesque version of it. Only makes it that much more funny that Johan doesn’t give a shit about ideas like superiority or anything of the sort.
Watching this man watch Monster is my new favorite thing
OMG SAME
Thanks, hope you keep enjoying it =)
Johan looking like the most innocent human ever
him: "okay so he looks like eva when she was nasty"
I fell in love with this anime after I finished it because I realised how beautiful and amazing and realistic it was and then i watched like every reaction channel that reacted to it 😅
I'm already hyped for your thoughts
Correction at the end: He thinks he's responsible for 7 people's deaths (because of the two murdered couples).
Pretty sure it's up to 15* murders at this point
Hospital 3
Four couples (8 people)
police officer 1
Junkers and his buddies 3*
EDIT: miscounted his buddies
@godlikefish1193 your count is much more accurate, but Junkers only had 2 partners (four individuals in the crimes including Johan). So it should be 15?
@@zoxxzy Ah, I interpreted "the Slayer" as a separate person.
Looking back on it they mention it being a group of three a couple times, so I think I got that wrong.
Another thing I love about this anime is that, I assure you, each episode gets better and better.
Yeah, that is how it feels =)
How/when does one become a monster? That's the real question and it has many potential answers.
It's what makes this series so very fascinating. And this series is so deliberate with its slow pacing. Letting certain moments really linger, giving you time to think about what is happening. Also the realistic facial epressions really make you feel the weight of the situation, but also sometimes makes you wonder what the characters are thinking.
Yeah, it is really realistic =)
Great reaction to the real introduction of the greastest villain in anime/manga (and, for many, in all fiction). I can't wait to watch your next reactions to this 2004-2005 masterpiece.
By the way, Johan's seiyu (Japanese voice actor) is Nozomu Sasaki. He is very known for being the one who dubs Tetsuo in the Akira movie (1988, which led to the first popularization of anime in the West beyond the traditional cartoons for children) and Mello in the Death Note series (2006-2007).
As for what you say about his surname, it's a mistake in those subtitles. The surname is Liebert in almost all languages (the only example I know where they changed that translation was in the Spanish dubbed version, my native language (Monster is one of the two animes with a Spanish dub with a quality that reaches the level of the original Japanese dub; the other is Death Note), Liebert is translated as Liebheart).
Johan's VA was also Yusuke Urameshi haha.
im glad that you are really hyped up by this anime
"Dr. Tenma." Straight up shivers down my spine, will always be an iconic voice acting. 🔥
Say hi to the monster!
This video REACTION is very excellent!👏👏👏 I am very satisfied. I was very happy that you mentioned Johan's voice, because it was a very important part of the animation. I also thought it was a great part of the animation that you really set that voice for that character.
I love that he gets excited watching monster, most of the time when reactors are this analytical and really smart, they don't tend to get this excited, but he's such a rare reactor, I really didn't expect this from watching the first reaction, really got best of both, i enjoy your reactions a lot!
Now we now why this anime its called monster
I really like older anime because usually they had alot of episodes and had alot of time for character/story development
They were slow (wich to me is a positive)
Nowadays anime have 3 seasons of 12 episodes, it is too fast paced for me and does not have the necesary time for good character/story development. Before even if the anime had multiple seasons they had a minimum of 25 episodes per season.
That is why i really liked monster, death note, evangelion and others of similar lenght
And that is why those types of anime are known for amazing stories and characters
Id honestly just chalk it up to anime that are written intricately with a meaty length throughout time are just rare in general.
@@tompac1044 Yes, and the really good stuff tends to stick around while the bad or mediocre stuff disappears. So looking back at media it always seems like there's more good stuff in the old days.
Oh i love how much you're enjoying this series, i felt the same way lol
Love the reaction
It's been close to two decades since I've seen Monster, and Johan's voice *still* haunts me. Unforgettable one of a kind performance.
P.S. That "ah go fk yourself" @ the episode ending was so real LOL It's the kind of show you just want to keep watching, you need those answers *right now*.
Yes, he’s calling the doctor, sensei. Sensei is a term of address for a teacher, instructor, doctor, lawyer, master, etc. The Japanese for teacher is kyoushi, I think, although a lot of westerners think it’s sensei. They hear the word being used all the time in the media and don’t realise it’s the term of address rather than the job title.
You'll be more and more shocked about what Johan did in many episode later
We will see :D
I wonder if the ‘you’re like my parent’ is a Japanese sentiment of ‘you’re responsible for me now’, since Tenma saved Junkers and Johan. I’ve seen in multiple anime/manga a sentiment of ‘you’ve imposed your will on my life/wellbeing, so now it falls to you now that you’ve done that.’ I’ve seen the phrase usually as ‘take responsibility (for me/my actions/my well-being)’. Usually in response to having helped someone direly - otherwise it seems a little bit of a queer turn of phrase.
I can’t believe I didn’t catch the connection between ‘cuckoo child’ and ‘cuckoo clock’! That’s amazing! In the UK it’s called a ‘changeling’ and is considered a false child placed by faeries to replace a kidnapped child.
Regarding the endings -- you might want to watch them, actually. They aren't spoiling anything directly, but they keep changing very slowly over the course of the anime.
Yes! You can watch them. They spoil nothing and add to the story.
Hi, japanese speaker here. Clarification for the scene where anna shambles trough the hospital whispering "kill me." Actually she doesnt specify the object so really it could be "kill anything." Here the translator went "kill me" but it could be "kill the aliens" ov as we know now maybe "kill him"?
Oh also, the liebert/leibert thing you mentionned? Probably nothing more than a typo… judging by how it's pronounced in japanese i guess it should be "liebert."
I discovered your content like a week ago, i love it. Keep it coming
Wow, that is awesome, thank you for elaborating on that! =) I assume she meant Johan? I am unsure, we will probably find out! =)
@storieswithstyle personnaly that would be my interpretation yeah
yooo Johan is here
He is indeed :D
"He should call the police" In 1995, where mobile Phones where still a rarity. I guess Tenma didn't had a mobile phone, because he did not seem it necessary in his day to day life, unlike nowadays :D
And Junkers could've run anywhere and be killed immediatly, because we know that the killer already killed the police officer.
Sure, Tenma reacted irrationaly in this moment because he cares for his patients, but him calling the police wouldn't make him less a suspect because he could've been an accomplice in this since the candy incident happened AGAIN in the hospital he's in.
Smth, Johan probably deliberately planted to get the trail of of him.
Was there a reason for this reaction being so short? I love your long reactions so please continue with them from the next episode.
I don't understand how Johan and Mr. Junkers actually end up together in that parking building. I find it hard to believe that Johan just waited there for him and anticipated him to go there... it's way too random to be honest. If anything it's likely that Johan after giving the policemen the candy just waited somewhere around the hospital for Junkers to then follow and corner him. But what is weird is that Tenma seemed to be too close to Mr. Junkers to not have seen Johan follow him.
The distance could have been greater than what the shots made it seem, but I don't like that argument because it means we can't trust the visualization.
Does someone have a logical explanation?
I don't like that people call Monster a "realistic" manga, naturalistic. Johan is very clearly in the boundary of super-natural on purpose, many feats of his during these first episodes are impossible to any people let alone a child, but it adds to the sublimity.
You could find logical explanations for everything, but keeping them foggy is why Johan is scary. How would he know or enter such places, how would he predict any of that, simple, no one could.
I think the anime is mostly realistic with the exception of the Monster.
@@Iyalo-cw7eb It's realistic by the standards of dramatic storytelling. In stories, sometimes characters are able to perform feats that strain the credulity, but are still within the realm of possibility. Also, there are some accepted conventions of dramatic storytelling that are pretty much impossible in real life, but are there for the sake of convenience, such as being able to knock people unconscious for prolonged periods of time. We call these stories realistic not because they depict things in a way that is likely or plausible to happen in a real life, but because they don't break the laws of physics (or at least don't do it too overtly) and they are consistent within the story universe (or the secondary world, if we go the Tolkien route).
Something similar is happening here -- Johan's manipulation and orchestration abilities would seem highly dubious in real life, but we accept them as part of the dramatic conventions we expect from villains. The same thing applies to people being in the right place at the right time, characters narrating their innermost thoughts for the sake of the audience, etc.
Monster is furthermore painstakingly taking into account the details of its settings and characters and it doesn't break the fourth wall in the way most anime does with, say, chibi depictions of characters or a narrator or a beach episode. I think this is actually one of the major reasons people call the anime adaptation realistic -- because it looks and feels realistic.
You could say that the unfinished building is the only close by, accessible building Mr. Junker could enter to hide. All finished buildings are at that time locked and Junkers fear compelled him to hide inside a building because he felt revealed outside. Maybe it's even his instinct as criminal to avoid being outside but always hide in buildings for a better chance to escape.
And Johan is supposed to feel otherworldly in his abilities because he is "so good". His intuitive human reading abilities seem to normal humans like magic. He anticipated it!
But we can only guess, because we never get his inner monologue and the only information that is given is that he worked with Junker long enough to have him figured out completely. Plus Johan ALWAYS gathers all the, to him available information about a person before he even contacts them, maybe even spies on them to get a better feel before that. And he never stops to improve his knowledge of you but always reads you!
An analogy of how good his intuitive reading skills are is: It's like you studied for decades mathematics and all the rules, and then a young genius comes along, and solves a problem in mere months you struggled decades to solve. It seems like magic, like how could he see those things that you where blind for DECADES, even after he explains it to you!
You're in for a ride...
JA das ist was ich sehen wollte! :D
Urasawa writes very classical narratives, the values characters hold, the setting and events with well demarcated personalities which all contribute to a main theme and nothing else.
Later we'll find a more experimental style of development (which ultimately turns classic in conclusion) for which he became consecrated and repeated throghout his thrillers (20th century boys and Billy Bat).
*Not a spoiler I'm talking about structure, that is, the way we get from B to C
Sensei can mean various things, but in essence it's a respectful suffix/title for learned people, especially teachers of all stripes (even your sports trainer might be sensei), but also lawyers, doctors, artists, novelists, etc -- people who are distinguished in their field either in a scholarly way or in that they have mastered something.
12:28 what website is this ?? Can someone tell me
I hope you'll watch Orb: on the movement of the earth one day
He will love it
This is gonna be a nice journey
I disagree with your opinion that Tenma's approach to the value of life is naive. In my opinion, since Tenma believes that every life is worth it, he will save anyone, even a murderer, because who is he to administer justice. That's why we have a legal system. The task of law is to bring justice, not the doctor's.
I fully agree with Kenzou's behavior here, his calling as a doctor is to save lives.
You could reverse the question: Who is he to judge that every life is worth it?
It being his job to save everyones life is independent of his beliefs or worldview. The justice system judges, not him.
@@DundG The problem is that this is not a "job" for Tenma, that's who he is, he is a doctor, that's why his worldview is what it is, even if he had a murderer bleeding out in front of him, he would save his life, which doesn't mean he protects that person from justice, he is simply not the one who imposes punishment here, that is why we have created appropriate systems for this and that's why he reports issue to the police.
I just agree with Tenma's approach, if I were a doctor I would act this way.
El Monstruo Siiiiiiii!
all lives are equal, or is it?
very good question
Episode 4 💀
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