Monster 18: Great Physician Tenma
This is the end. Rain drums against the roof, and in between the low rolls of thunder, you hear something that you could have sworn was a gunshot. Outside, fear alone animates the hearts of those still stuck out on the streets - the devil has come to town.
Woah, hey, who let Matt write self-indulgent prose again? Sorry about that. Arriving not late, but exactly when it intended to is the FINAL READING of Urasawa Boy's inaugural season on Monster.
Across a new "record-breaking" number of recordings (2 each), Matt and Quinn update you on everything that's going on for them, and then spend almost three and a half hours talking about rain, atonement, micro-expressions, death-flags, guilt, history, consequences, metaphors, cutaways, psychic powers, illustration and interpretation, Stephen King, The Bible, 90s Action Movies, 90s Spider-Man comics, 90s Batman comics, and just about everything else we've gone nuts over while reading this finale.
Join us for showdown after showdown as the cast of Monster converges on Ruhenheim to finally experience Johan's vision of the end. Thank you for listening, and for waiting - folks; it's a good one.
Material Covered: Monster (Chapter 152 - 162)
Next Time: Monster - Wrap-up / Listener Questions / Final Discussion
Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on Twitter and support us on Patreon. Thanks for listening!
CONTENT WARNINGS
We're currently reading Monster, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, child abuse, gaslighting/emotional abuse, racism, Nazis, terrorism, death, suicide, hospitals/surgery, alcoholism, drug abuse, weapons/guns, and transphobia. Please proceed with caution!