VIZ Media announced recently that the animated TV series adaptation of Naoki Urasawa's Monster will be part of SyFy Channel's fall programming line-up. Beginning on Monday October 12, 2009, Monster will be part of SyFy's "Ani-Monday" programming, with episodes rebroadcast the following week on SyFy's sister channel, Chiller. SyFy has been featuring a variety of anime series in this block, including Black Jack, Gundam, Appleseed and much more.
Monster is based on the award-winning manga suspense series by Naoki Urasawa, the creator of Pluto and 20th Century Boys. Compared to many anime, Monster is a drama series set in a world that's very much like the one we live in today. A Japanese doctor and his allies must try to solve a series of mysterious murders that is tied to a government mind-control experiment.
The hero of Monster is Dr. Kenzo Tenma, a young, idealistic doctor who has made a name for himself in Germany as a gifted neurosurgeon. Dr. Tenma's skills help him to save the life of a young boy who was near death from a bullet wound, but Dr. Tenma later discovers that he may have saved the life of a killer.
Monster is kind of like a mix between The Fugitive and The Boys From Brazil -- a grown-up drama series that weaves together many threads of deception, government conspiracies and betrayals with moments of heart-warming human kindness. Once it sucks you in, Monster won't let go -- so get ready to set your DVR to view every episode of this suspenseful series.
Image credit: © 2004 NAOKI URASAWA, Studio Nuts / Shogakukan, VAP, NTV
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I wonder if the Sci-Fi (sorry but SyFy is just stupid) network will expand the anime block if it takes off. The only other channels that show anime are IFC and Adult Swim. I would say the Anime network, but I don’t have it.