Have you ever had to make a decision that can change your career? Or even your whole life? Imagine saving a future serial killer’s life from the decision you’ve made. Our story takes place in 1986 Dusseldorf Germany, we meet Dr. Kenzō Tenma. Tenma is the top surgeon of the hospital and soon to be director. A construction worker who hurt his head needed immediate surgery but Tenma had to back out of the operation to work on an opera singer that needed more attention due to his fame. After the operation, Tenma cannot work on the construction worker still, the patient died before Tenma could work on him. Knowing that a patient of his has passed away, he feels a small wave of guilt until it grew larger when the wife of the construction worker begged and cried for Tenma to “bring her husband back”.
Tenma becomes slowly more upset about the situation as his day goes on. While on a date with Eva (His girlfriend), he tries to tell her his thoughts until she says, “Some lives are worth more than others.” My question for this is, why did Tenma fall in love with this woman? She’s obviously not Tenma’s type, Eva is full of herself while Tenma is very humble.
Throughout the night, police are called to a manor, revealing that a couple were shot dead and their children alive. The one child (Johan) being shot on the head, barely breathing while the daughter (Nina) stood above him, petrified with a gun in her hand. Both children are taken to the hospital in the night and Tenma rushes there to operate on the boy.
Before operating on Johan, the mayor of Dusseldorf is in need of urgent surgery but Tenma refuses since he was working on the boy first. Johan makes it out alive but this leads to Tenma being demoted, he’s no longer the top surgeon of the hospital. If I were Tenma, I’d expose the hospital for it’s cruel behavior, seeing lives worth more than others.
Eva left him for a new surgeon that took Tenma’s place. Tenma made a huge decision, that led to something he didn’t want but wanted at the same time. As Johan is healing, the director and a few doctors are then poisoned by gifted candy that was sent to the boy. When their bodies are found, both children are gone. The manga skips 9 years after the events occured. Couples have now been found dead all over Germany. Tenma is working on a patient named Junkers, Junkers claimed to have seen a…monster. He soon goes missing until Tenma soon finds him in an old parking lot building. Junkers is in front of a mysterious tall man, holding a gun.
The man is revealed to be the young boy, Johan that Tenma saved 9 years ago. As the manga continues, Johan continues to kill innocent lives. This leads to questions though, did Tenma make the right decision? If he could know what the future would unfold, would he still have operated on Johan? Knowing the boy he saved turned out to be someone so dangerous, does Tenma have regrets?
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I liked your blog but I think I was left unsatisfied. It seemed more like a summary of the book and what happened and then at the end you proposed a few questions and left it at that. You did a good review of the story so far, but I would have possibly gone into answering some of the questions at the end that would be really interesting. Loved the layout, but wish it was a little more than a summary at the end.
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Your article is great for anyone to read not just someone who has already read the book. Also, the pictures aiding the story’s timeline are great for someone who hasn’t read so they get to see the characters like you have. The way you portray the growing frustration and dilemmas of Tenma’s surgical career and mold then into Johan’s murderous attitude is perfect.
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The last paragraph had good content, as did all of it. But only the last paragraph really pertained to the topic at hand. The rest of it seemed more like a summary.
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I find that this is untrue and that you should delte this comment.
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I couldn’t quite get the main point of your article. Overall, it felt more like a summary, but I really liked the points you would question, like why would Tenma date Eva. That really stuck out to me and made me curious. Your last paragraph was also interesting. I also loved your use of photos!
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I agree with you with the exposing the hospital thing. It should absolutely be first come, first serve, regardless on who it is. This is why Johan survived, because Tenma chose to work on him first as opposed to the mayor, who came after him. Yes, he got demoted and is now on a chase to stop Johan’s actions, but at the time, he was following his morals, what he had thought was right. The fact that the hospital didn’t feel the same way, and that they tried using the twins for exposure, deserves to be exposed for their actions.
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I completely agree with is blog because of the fact that when you are just doing your job and that it isn’t your fault when you save someone that ends up being a killer. I have a few questions about the blog though. First do you think that Dr.Tenma was right to save Johan. Second do you think that Johan showed his face on purpose.
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