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Hii! May I request some Tenma x reader headcanons or a whole fic with a reader who is also a doctor? They could have met back when he was working in the hospital or during his journey, up for you to decide. Thank you very much!!

Hi thank you for this,sorry for the late reply<3

Tenma met you when he was working for Eva's dad,in his hospital. You were obviously just a doctor like he was and he took a liking to you specifically.

You were such an amazing doctor! He thought you were the best out of all the people working in that hospital but he refused to admit it out loud to not offend anyone. He started observing you, your habits and your work. He was impressed by every successful surgery that you had performed.

He really wanted to get close to you,to know you better. You have a lot of potential to become someone even more successful than you already were.

Eventually the two of you started talking. You took notice of how handsome Tenma looked, his eyes were such a pretty shade of brown.

Not long after meeting him,he asked you out on a date which surprised you a bit,he was pretty forward with things,not that you minded.

"I was wondering if you'd like to go out with me? I know this amazing restaurant just nearby the hospital..I heard they have delicious dishes,my treat!

You both started getting along more and more and god..he was such a gentleman. Tenma just treats you so nicely and he even tries to convince Eva's dad to let him work alongside you and assist to your surgeries.(He did in fact convince him)

He gives you lots of useful tips and tries to teach you things that you may not be very experienced in. He looked so beautiful while he talked,you couldn't take your eyes off him,his back hair falling over his eyes. You always kinda just space out,his facial features distract you,he was way too good looking.

"..and while you have to take a bullet out you have to be very careful to not touch anything that may-..hey.. are you paying attention to me? Are you okay?"

After just a few months of talking and being friends(with benefits) he finally asked you(properly this time) to be his partner. You didn't want to rush things with him as it may ruin what you have,I mean a few months isn't a lot..you should wait more before making this decision. But..at the same time you knew you wanted him.

In the end you both end up together and man this guy suddenly became even more attractive to you. He always takes you out and he buys you flowers at least a few times a month,and he generally spoils you.

"ah hey love,how was your day? Any challenging patients today?"

"Oh these? Ah I almost forgot about them,they're flowers for you,dear. I spotted them on my way home and they reminded me of you"

Tenma now assists in every single one of your surgeries at the hospital, operating alongside you and eventually You both get promoted to a higher rank among the doctors which helps with your reputation.

Y'all cannot tell me that Johan Liebert wouldn't use names like "darling" or "dear" for his partner. Especially dear,it just sounds so pleasant to him.

At first he was hesitant about calling you any kind of name or pet name besides just your actual name. He was never in a relationship before so he was just uncertain and it felt strange.

It didn't take a lot for him to warm up to it though.

"I won't be home until later tonight,I'll have some things to solve first. Just wait for me,dear"

He's not a big fan of the other pet names like baby or babe,he thinks they're too cheesy,he doesn't like cheesy shit.

Maybeee he would sometimes use "sweetheart" if he feels nice,but heavy on SOMETIMES.

He'd use "sweetheart" mostly if he's feeling a bit cocky or cheeky. Like when you're bringing up information that's wrong.

"You're wrong on that fact,science actually says otherwise, sweetheart.

Johan doesn't like using pet names very often so when he does it makes your stomach tingle(in a good way ofc) because it shows you that he still somewhat cares about you in his own weird way.

"Not now, darling,I have some things I need to write down first"

Also he definitely dislikes the word bae idk. He'll give you the nastiest glance if you're gonna call him that. (And you sometimes do because it's funny to see him annoyed)

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general Johan and reader headcanons? just in general how it would be like in a relationship? ty :)

Johan is a very calm and collected person,you enjoy his presence a lot because of that fact and he surprisingly also enjoys yours.

He doesn't necessarily want to have lots of people around him but after you guys met, he caught a liking to you,you were pretty interesting.

He often invites you over at his place to mostly either read alongside him or to eat together.

I wouldn't say he's the most talkative person..he probably just lets you do the talking while he just listens, eventually giving an opinion on what you had to say when you're done.

He definitely checks you out shamelessly whenever he gets the chance (especially when you're not looking).

Johan wasn't one to be after a person's looks,hell he wasn't even interested in a relationship at first but there was something about you that he had never seen in someone else.

You were something special, to him at least. Your personality was intriguing to him, he found you very interesting.

He starts glaring and glancing over at you more often after you start dating. He also kinda stalks you and takes a few notes on your habits, pretty much out of curiosity. He wants to learn about his new lover!

He keeps a small notebook hidden somewhere under his desk, keeping information about you in it (you don't know about his notebook)

I feel like he wouldn't be jealous at all?? Like you could go out in public with him and you'd have lots of guys just drooling over you and he'd just look at them with a tilt of his head,his expression remaining neutral,but not unkind.

He really doesn't care,the only time he'll get involved is if someone tries to harm you in some way,he wouldn't allow you to get hurt.

He pretty much trusts you,he knew you wouldn't be interested in other guys anyway.

Johan is not the biggest fan of physical touch but he just recently found out he enjoys holding your hand, especially when you go out in public with him.

He doesn't want to admit he enjoys holding hands directly so he'll try to find some excuses to do it.

"ah,be careful,there are too many cars driving at a fast speed...you should hold my hand just in case. It'll be safer"

You chuckle at his words,and then gently interlock your hand to his.

He obviously knew that you were aware of his excuses..I mean no one would fall for it but he didn't mind you knowing anyway. He just didn't want to admit it directly.

I'm telling y'all,this man does not know how to kiss,like at all.

He gets curious about it at one point and he's asking you if you could kiss.

"I gave this a lot of thought and I really wanted to kiss you,I want to know how it feels to be so..close to a person"

He said to you with the same neutral expression on his face,but having just a slight smile peaking at the corners of his mouth.

He is a messy kisser,very very messy. Saliva and spit included.

He doesn't mean to be messy! He's just a little weird,I mean poor boy never had a lover before can you blame him for being inexperienced? :(

Even though it's messy,his kisses are also intense. He puts effort into it, maybe too much effort.

Johan had your body trapped between him and a door,his hands gripping onto both of your forearms while his mouth was exploring yours.

He definitely uses tongue when kissing

I swear it's like this man was digging for gold inside your mouth or something..you didn't expect him to get so desperate! It's out of character for him.

Also he definitely calls you dear or darling,idc

Hello! I would like to request general romantic headcanons with Tenma, thank you!

Hi pretty,thanks for the request<3

Ohh this man would be absolutely obsessed with his lover,you cannot tell me otherwise

Tenma definitely cooks and cleans for you,it's his love language,along with words of affirmation

Remember those scenes in the anime where he went out of his way to buy that clock for Mr junkers?(Or whatever was his name) And that ball for Dieter?? Yeah he definitely would do that for his partener

He buys you lots of unnecessary shit that you don't need at all. If you point out that you like a certain type of food,drink, or anything really,he's gonna sprint to the closest store to buy it for you before he comes home

I'd say he's also a bit touch starved,he loves receiving any type of physical touch,variating from holding hands to kisses and cuddles and maybe even holding onto your thigh while he drives

Tenma likes your thighs a lot,I'd say he might have a preference for thicker women but don't get me wrong,he wouldn't love you less if you're be skinny

Honestly he kinda likes cheesy and corny stuff,for example maybe he'd let you dress him up in those matching couples shirts.

Absolutely adores taking you out on dates,he loves seeing his beautiful lover getting dressed up in something more fancy and he himself loves to dress elegantly(just for you)

Happy Birthday, Kenzo Tenma!

And happy new year!

I love you~

Edo Period (do not fact check me) Kenzo Tenma

I was reading some stuff about the Edo period and just wanted to draw a portrait of Kenzo in something similar to their style painting style.

Tbh this is just my vision of concubine Kenzo🤭 Hence the pretty looks 🥰

I KNOW this was meant for OCs but I couldn't help but make this for Kenzo.

That's why "OC" was crossed out.

I must worship him any chance I get 😩

Elaborating on my choices below 👇

For aesthetics, I added the neurosurgery pic obv. Cloudy weather with rays of sunshine (cause he's a ray of sunshine between all the rain clouds 💗) with birds flying across. And a picnic because our Kenzo likes picnics and I can visualize him all beautiful during a sunny day on a picnic with us 💕

For favorites, that's meant to be favorite color, favorite movie/show, and favorite animal.

I'm not creative so I headcanon his favorite color is blue because idk. Trust me bro.

For his favorite movie, a friend suggested he could've liked Titanic so I added that one, maybe he likes romance/dramas!

And for his favorite animal, I think he'd like birds. We sometimes saw birds appear in the show around Tenma and I view it as a symbol of hope. Like the birds visit him sometimes to remind him to never lose hope and to remember his ways, and honestly that just makes it more beautiful.

Character inspirations are mostly what I analyzed Urasawa could've been inspired by while making Dr Tenma.

We have the archangel Uriel, which is a bit of a stretch but I chose him because someone analyzed Kenzo Tenma's name, and they've concluded that his name means "Light of God", which is the same name meaning that Uriel has.

Then we have, of course, Doctor Tenma from Astroboy. No need to explain why I placed him there.

Next we have Naoki Urasawa himself, I've thought he took a bit about himself in the making of Kenzo. They've shared some physical qualities such as the longer hair and the stubble, they share the same birthday, and often times, authors tend to make characters they can relate to, to some extent.

And finally, I added the protagonist from The Fugitive, since Naoki took inspiration from that 1960s movie when making Monster.

And as for the songs, I probably didn't do it right because I just added the songs that make me think of him, not songs that relate to him lol. So I'm not explaining. I just listen to them and think omg Kenzito🥺💝

💕Thank you to whoever read this wall of text.💕

Here's the original template:

Ramblings regarding Dr. Tenma

I was thinking ONE of the reasons why Tenma could've stayed with Eva for so long and put up with it was because he was scared.

Cuz the moment he graduated highschool, he left Japan for a foreign country (according to Another Monster). So of course, he was very young, that's a scary thing for a young person. Sure, it's not like anybody had his back in Japan (cause his family were a bunch of opportunistic rats) but he had people he knew, and knew what to expect, and now he's in a whole other country with people who can be hostile to him for being asian, since at the time they didn't take kindly to foreigners/minorities.

He made friends in college but based on how he is (in Another Monster, it is said he never liked being in groups), he probably didn't feel like it was actually meaningful since none of those friendships lasted. I feel like people were only interested because OMG ITS JACKIE-CHAN!! joined their white-dominated college.

Really, the only person he could rely on was the director Heinemann and Eva.

He put up with it because he needed someone to depend on, he needed someone to guide him and tell him what to do just like Eva did, because in the end that is all he had. So the poor thing, of course, would be scared to be left without the things and people whom he relies on, even if those things harmed him.

He was young... Only when he grew up and was able to live independently, he was able to let go of those things, after he's had enough.

All the people he's depended on wanted nothing but the worst for him tbh </3 maybe that's why Eva's curses never phased him cause he was used to it already due to his bitch mom (unreasonably harsh on him according to Tenma's former colleagues. I'm 100% sure it's worse than they put it cause Tenma is the most patient and forgiving person ever, his family and stupid mom must've been the worst if he literally never went back, never responds to his brother's letters and overall does not wish to speak about them).

I could go in more detail about my headcanons for this but I'll see.

Hello yes let's pretend today is January 2nd.

Happy birthday to our sweetest angel, Kenzito♡

I can't believe it's January 2nd guys omg I'm not late at all!

Just a week away! Woohoo!🎄

Some wojacks I made.

Pov: You treat him right 🩷💛🩵💚

HE DESERVES A HAPPY PICNIC

🤍🤍🤍

Yes, OC x Kenzo but you can imagine it as y/n instead 💐💝

I designed a mother for Grimmer! We don't know crap about his past so I may as well do my own headcanons. Her name is Elli.

For background, I was thinking she's a single mother who took care of Grimmer. Until the cold war came. Elli was a journalist and she secretly worked amongst groups of people who disagreed with communist ideologies.

And then, a friend of Elli decided to rat her out. Which led to her being politically persecuted for being part of a group that expressed disdain against communism.

Elli, with her little son at the time, had no option but to flee.

Her objective was to cross the Berlin Wall with her son, and got very far. Unfortunately, not far enough. Grimmer's mother ended up being shot at the border and he was then taken to Kinderheim 511.

And that's the context I came up with lolol

Did an attempt on a painting a while ago. Its supposed to be the landscape you see in the end of the Monster opening and in the anime.

Dear Monster fandom,

Can we PLEASE write more fics? Why's there like barely any Tenma ones when he's lit the main character of the show... I need new gooning content ASAP 😂😂😂

Thank you.

Wolfgang grimmer edit! (Flash warning)

“Silent watcher” Kenzo Tenma x F!Reader

genre: fluff, slight angst to comfort. cw: slight spoilers, anxiety, dealing with trauma, post canon au

The second week of October in the foothills of southern Germany was overcast. From the small open balcony, where her feet were freezing from standing for so long, there was a view of the misty plain a couple of dozen meters down the slope. She rested her shoulder on the door frame, slightly leaning to the side, and dispassionately watched the drumming raindrops. The humidity of the air provided a sense of coolness with each breath, as if reaching the alveoli directly, and the rhythmic pounding of the drops hitting the surface was pleasantly calming.

Once she hated the rain. But then something changed. No, the rainfalls did not become less frequent, less gray. She became different.

From a warm awareness, a shadow of a smile appeared on her calm face, and her auditory receptors were distracted by another monotonous sound. The rustle of the rain slowly began to replace by the rustle of a pen sliding over paper, coming from the bedroom they shared for the duration of their stay in the hotel. Her bare feet carefully stepped over the wooden sill, not wanting to feel the still fresh pain of hitting it last night, and found themselves on a room’s floor which was only a couple of degrees warmer than the wet tiles of the balcony. Her hair, slightly fluffed up by the moisture, kept trying to get into her face as her quiet steps made their way towards the desk.

He had once loved the rain. But then something had changed. No, the rainfalls had not become less frequent, less gray. He had become different.

The black ink of the pen traced the lines of the German alphabet evenly on the expensive coated paper. He wanted to focus on the unwanted mail, just not to hear it, just not to remember it, just not to see it. The meaningless advertisements and annoying requests for interviews that he had finally learned to ignore seemed to be a salvation for him at such moments. Focusing on the calligraphic handwriting, on the work of the hand, writing the letters with excessive diligence, he was distracted. Perhaps this was partly why he decided to connect his life with neurosurgery. Endless hours of painstaking manual work freed him from the need to live in the present. The brain was busy, the heart also temporarily fell quiet. The silence lulled.

Kenzo continued to write out template phrases of greetings, apologies, farewells. It seemed as if just a little more and he would go to the neighboring rooms, collecting advertising letters, and would write responses to them, signing them himself as Mr. N or Mrs. T. He himself, also not noticing, slightly blushed from excessive efforts, completely immersed in routine work.

The pen froze only for a moment, when a cool trace of someone else's palm remained on his hot cheek, on the opposite temple - a slight imprint of cold lips.

If someone had been watching them through the window that overlooked the shallow slope, they would have been reminded of Klimt's "Kiss". The play of temperatures descended on his collarbone, diving under the collar of his wide shirt along with a woman's forearm, as cold as the pads of her fingers, which still tormented the capillaries on his cheek with a chill. The rain was disgusting to him. The rain was mixed with blood, hatred, the sticky and tenacious nightmare of Ruenheim. But now only it gave him another moment with her, another joyful moment of life. Another second, minute, hour, day spent with someone who truly knew him. Love in the present, not the future and not the past.

And only the rain could paint their "Kiss".

English is not my first language, but I’m pretty fluent, so had to use translator and correct some mistakes, would love some feedback :)

So I was checking my mail and I stumble upon this...

"In news guaranteed to satisfy manga fans, film geeks and evil pre-teen sociopaths, Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, Pacific Rim) recently announced his involvement in an HBO pilot for an adaption of Naoki Urasawa's horror manga Monster. Not only is everyone's favorite geek-director producing, writing and directing the pilot, but he also revealed that the show would be a strict adaptation of the manga with no “extra” content to pad out the episode count. GDT plus HBO? Yes, please."

So... Honestly, I'm not a huge fan of Del Toro (I love the first Hellboy, and that's about it), but I'm actually pretty excited to see results when it comes out since the story is fairly realistic.

Sadly, I don't have HBO... bah.

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That just got me thinking, whatever happened to the plans for a live-action Black Jack series or did that go down the toilet?

I can see that being a bit difficult since you'd want to attract non-nerdy people to the series. 

You'd end up having to: redesign his look~ make up some new story for Pinoko (if she even exists in the series), probably renaming some of the characters... 

But if they did it right, it could be a good series if it ever came to into existence, but on the same token, it could be terrible if done wrong. Unfortunately, I sense more going wrong than going right with this series. Wish they would ask for fan-input when it came to this stuff. Then everyone could be happy with something that could have ended up with a very scary result.

Or they could even offer fans to submit scripts for different chapters of the manga, that would allow people to try to make it acceptable and appealing for everyone watching. I love manga just as it is, but I'm trying to think realistically with people who aren't used to Tezuka's storytelling. Prime example is Pinoko, I don't think the average person would be as accepting of her origin story as many of the fans are.

I mean you could completely skip over her story, and say she was a patient of his that he ended up adopting (which is true to the manga), but then you'd have to remove her real age or make the excuse that when she says she's 18 because she has such a huge crush on him, she wants to be of marrying age (but you'd have to take into consideration how dark the series would be).  I think the best course of action for viewers here would be to make her a 11 to 13 year old who's simply his adopted daughter and assists him in emergencies.

Yeah... I went on a long rant.

The only thing all humans are equal in… Is death.

Hear me out

Post Ruhenheim AU where grimmer is very much alive ofc

Grimmer start working for BKA and then, taking Lunge’s place when he became professor ✌🏻Like, bro. His former spy abilities would be extremely helpful for the BKA.

Just listen how good it sounds 🫦

✨Inspector Wolfgang Grimmer ✨

It’s giving nick wilde from zootopia 💋

Redraw of this other drawing. (+ Christa’s true name)

I just read Carry me Awry for the first time and now I want to write some Lunge/Tenma

Mermay is closeeee i think this year I’m translating my Guriten mermaid AU fic into English hehehe

I thought that writing the poems Naoko wrote for Grimmer would’ve been more difficult but the words just slip on the paper. I love it

Can’t wait to show you lol

Should I make a side blog for Wicked Game? Like I want to post more stuff about the girls

Michael Fassbender will always be my favorite Grimmer fancast but my bestie said Sam Claflin has his charm and matches his vibe pretty well.

And now I can’t unsee it 🫡

Like, a younger Grimmer, perhaps?

How I love giving Tenma/Kathryn horny crumbs 🫡