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Monster: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 2
by Naoki Urasawa
I just can’t get on board with how much disbelief this thing wants me to suspend. Every chapter starts out with wild circumstances conspiring, usually, to give a huge exposition dump that has some new shocking revelation, typically from people we’ve never even heard of or seen before. It does no work to connective tissue and opts for gotcha moment after another. But it actually transgresses into more melodrama and soap opera-esk tropes. It’s not good writing and I have no idea why people dig it so much. The twist at the end of this is just another nail in the coffin, for me. So stupid.