Sep 3, 2024
I'm just waiting for Kongo to join the club tbh
The 'I killed this kid's parent(s), so now it's mine/my responsibility to bear'-club
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I'm just waiting for Kongo to join the club tbh
The 'I killed this kid's parent(s), so now it's mine/my responsibility to bear'-club
[art dump] some select middle-aged men from monster
Incidentally, I need to take a moment and do a quick appreciation post for Kenzo Tenma (the protagonist of Naoki Urasawa’s Monster), because the guy is like... embarrassingly my type, on top of being generally awesome.
Especially in the way that he’s constantly taking time out of Important High-Stakes Plot Stuff to randomly be precious with small children. Like at one point he’s literally in middle of his Badass Rocky Training Montage so he can track down a serial killer, and he takes time out to PUT A BABY BIRD BACK IN ITS NEST???
Like, what kind of Silver Age Superman nonsense??? I love him???
He also cooks dinner for the guy who’s training him and this little girl? (And yes, he can also cook, because he is Actually Perfect.)
At one point he finds this boy who’s being abused and not only makes sure to protect him and get him away from his abuser...
... and take the time to cheer him up and reassure him about the future...
He also just... lets the kid keep hanging around him when it becomes clear the kid is too scared to trust anyone else? Because he doesn’t have the heart to just dump him in an orphanage or turn him over to the authorities or whatever?
Like, I cannot stress enough that at this point Tenma is still TRYING TO HUNT DOWN A SERIAL KILLER, and is also on the run from the authorities because he’s been FRAMED FOR MURDER, but he still? Has to take the time out to help all the small children in need?
(And yes, it’s kinda irresponsible of him to let a child hang around him in those circumstances, but you have to appreciate what a good place it’s coming from.)
But in case you thought this was limited to kids, no, he’s also this lovely and supportive with any adults who need him, even criminals who have done some legitimately messed-up things:
And yet none of this makes him any less intelligent or competent or badass? Have a scene of him threatening to stab a neo-Nazi in the carotid artery with a pen:
(I love both that this is 100% a bluff, because Tenma would not just murder a dude like that, but also that he has the conviction to pull this off and convince the neo-Nazis he’s completely serious.)
He’s just... the best, basically? Everyone should read/watch this series so that they can love him as much as I do?
That’s all, you can go back to your regularly scheduled business now.
Parallels.
when you got the porch lights turned off and a trick-or-treater rings your doorbell anyways
Tenma + Gun Training
Oh, you know, just casually talking about a Japanese man named Doctor Tenma who's good with brains while two characters who look like Johan and Hugo Bernhardt stand there.
Urasawa why must you do this to me