What happened in the hospital at the end of the anime/manga?


I don't understand where Johan went after he "mysteriously" got out of the
hospital. Dr. Tenma seems to be finally OK and I don't understand how after
all this, Yohan still lived. He was the one who caused all this evil in the
first place!

A fantastic anime, but a confusing one at the end. Can someone explain what
happened?




Obviously, this entire post is going to be spoilers.

> It's left as an open issue at the end of the series. Johan was operated on
> and saved yet again by Tenma and when he went to visit Johan at the police
> hospital, who was in a coma originally, Johan sat up and was talking to
> Tenma. But later we see the same room with an empty hospital bed.  
>  
> The conversation at the end was about which child Johan's mother wanted to
> keep, him or Anna/Nina. So there may be a clue in that.

Some of the possibilities:

> 1\. He died after waking up from the coma and talking to Tenma (Or
> Alternatively, the talking to Tenma bit could have been a daydream, but he
> died anyways)  
> 2\. He was released and he's alive and well  
> 3\. He escaped from the police hospital just like the beginning of the show
> and continues his ways.

.

> But the focus should be on the mother and her choice on which twin to give
> up and which to "save" and the title of the last episode, "The Real
> Monster". There's always been confusion as to which was which because
> previously we were told from conflicting memories. Some people think that
> the title of "The Real Monster" is the mother, some people think it's
> referring to everyone and the world, how the world can make anyone a
> monster, or, Johan is the real monster afterall. Each of these sort of
> correlates to one of the possibilities.  
>  
> If the mother was the real monster for choosing one twin and unwanted the
> other, Johan dies and Nina lives. If everyone's really a monster, Johan was
> absolved (for the most part, maybe not criminally) of all of his crimes
> because the world and the people in it are the real monsters. If Johan is
> the true monster here, then he escaped from the police hospital and
> continues to play the role of the "real monster".

So it's up to your interpretation. Who do _you_ think the real monster is?




Obviously, this entire post is going to be spoilers.

> It's left as an open issue at the end of the series. Johan was operated on
> and saved yet again by Tenma and when he went to visit Johan at the police
> hospital, who was in a coma originally, Johan sat up and was talking to
> Tenma. But later we see the same room with an empty hospital bed.  
>  
> The conversation at the end was about which child Johan's mother wanted to
> keep, him or Anna/Nina. So there may be a clue in that.

Some of the possibilities:

> 1\. He died after waking up from the coma and talking to Tenma (Or
> Alternatively, the talking to Tenma bit could have been a daydream, but he
> died anyways)  
> 2\. He was released and he's alive and well  
> 3\. He escaped from the police hospital just like the beginning of the show
> and continues his ways.

.

> But the focus should be on the mother and her choice on which twin to give
> up and which to "save" and the title of the last episode, "The Real
> Monster". There's always been confusion as to which was which because
> previously we were told from conflicting memories. Some people think that
> the title of "The Real Monster" is the mother, some people think it's
> referring to everyone and the world, how the world can make anyone a
> monster, or, Johan is the real monster afterall. Each of these sort of
> correlates to one of the possibilities.  
>  
> If the mother was the real monster for choosing one twin and unwanted the
> other, Johan dies and Nina lives. If everyone's really a monster, Johan was
> absolved (for the most part, maybe not criminally) of all of his crimes
> because the world and the people in it are the real monsters. If Johan is
> the true monster here, then he escaped from the police hospital and
> continues to play the role of the "real monster".

So it's up to your interpretation. Who do _you_ think the real monster is?

