One would expect this vocative to be used only in great contempt, expressing the speaker’s views on someone’s inhuman behaviour. A multiple murderer might well be referred to as a monster, but in normal life such people rarely have to be...

Monster is a seinen manga written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa published by Shogakukan in Big Comic Original between 1994 and 2001, and reprinted in 18 tankōbon volumes. The series won an Excellence Prize at the 1997 Japan Media Arts Festival and...