Monster Killer

SyFy’s anime Monster has nothing to do with that movie where Charlize Theron dresses up like an ugly person

Author Junot Diaz has named the manga Monster as his biggest guilty pleasure. But Diaz is just the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, so what does he know?

For any of you unfamiliar with the story, it was crafted by manga master Naoki Urawawa and revolves around a brain surgeon who must make an agonizing decision: Should he operate on a prominent politician or on a young boy who arrived at the hospital slightly earlier? He decides to save the life of the boy. A hard, but understandable choice. Except it turns out the little boy is actually a remorseless killer programmed to be a super soldier as part of an experimental government program. Oops. Don’t you hate it when that happens? When bodies start piling up several years later, the surgeon learns what he has done and begins a quest to unravel the boy’s past and unsave the life he once saved.

So why are we mentioning this now? Because Monster was crafted into an atmospheric anime in 2004, and an English language version debuts tonight on SyFy’s late-night Ani-Monday block.

We recommend you snuggle into the couch and watch it with the emotionless murderer in your life.

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