knowledge_of_self
The Living Force
I don’t usually recommend anime on here, but I am a big anime fan and do watch some regularly. Unfortunately most anime is not that great and not worthy of mention on here but I happen to watch one recently that was very cool and mostly in line with what we have observed about psychopathy and our world run by psychopaths.
I was hesitant to write about it at first because it is anime.. but after reading AI’s recent article about the Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, I was compelled to share this with you all.
As the title says the anime is called Monster. (For those that don't want spoilers and intend to watch the series click the link to read the animenewsnetwork summary)
**Minor spoiler**
The protagonist is a neurosurgeon named Kenzo Tenma who becomes entangled in a murder mystery after saving the life of a 10 year old boy from a gunshot wound to the head. The boy has a twin sister who is the only one found alive from a murdered family and almost dead twin brother, and undergoes major trauma and amnesia. Little does Tenma know that the 10 year old boy he saved was a child-psychopath who ends up murdering many people after disappearing with his sister from the hospital days after the surgery. The whole series takes place in Europe (mostly in Germany) after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
**end spoiler**
The reason I found this anime to be so good and different from most anime is the murder mystery and the idea of a child psychopath. It has a lot of elements of psychology into it, and talks about how many psychologist, doctors and people in places of power are psychopaths. It talks about the effects of parental neglect/trauma and psychopathology as a whole.
What is also very interesting about it is that it takes aspects of events that happened in our real life, like NAZI human experiments, PSYOP and other things and real locations that have existed at one point or another and presenting them under different names. It is overall very good, although it does present some minor propaganda elements (like blaming a lot of stuff on communism and how East Germany was in such a bad condition due to West Germany). But on the whole, it was a very interesting series and a rare breed as far as anime goes.
I was hesitant to write about it at first because it is anime.. but after reading AI’s recent article about the Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, I was compelled to share this with you all.
As the title says the anime is called Monster. (For those that don't want spoilers and intend to watch the series click the link to read the animenewsnetwork summary)
**Minor spoiler**
The protagonist is a neurosurgeon named Kenzo Tenma who becomes entangled in a murder mystery after saving the life of a 10 year old boy from a gunshot wound to the head. The boy has a twin sister who is the only one found alive from a murdered family and almost dead twin brother, and undergoes major trauma and amnesia. Little does Tenma know that the 10 year old boy he saved was a child-psychopath who ends up murdering many people after disappearing with his sister from the hospital days after the surgery. The whole series takes place in Europe (mostly in Germany) after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
**end spoiler**
The reason I found this anime to be so good and different from most anime is the murder mystery and the idea of a child psychopath. It has a lot of elements of psychology into it, and talks about how many psychologist, doctors and people in places of power are psychopaths. It talks about the effects of parental neglect/trauma and psychopathology as a whole.
What is also very interesting about it is that it takes aspects of events that happened in our real life, like NAZI human experiments, PSYOP and other things and real locations that have existed at one point or another and presenting them under different names. It is overall very good, although it does present some minor propaganda elements (like blaming a lot of stuff on communism and how East Germany was in such a bad condition due to West Germany). But on the whole, it was a very interesting series and a rare breed as far as anime goes.
