Monster

Doctor Tenma chooses to operate on a wounded child instead of a politician, and the child grows into a man who murders without leaving a trace. Madhouse adapts Naoki Urasawa's manga as a slow, methodical thriller set across a reunified Germany. There is no superpower and almost no action. The tension comes from a good man being framed and from a villain who works mostly by talking people into ruining themselves. It runs 74 episodes and rarely wastes one, building its dread by accumulation rather than shock.