Transmedia Storytelling

The story of Noaki Urasawa's Monster is a story about a doctor named Kenzo Tenma in Germany in the late 1900s who saves a young boy's life. 10 years later that boy, named Johan, grows up and becomes a serial killer and Kenzo Tenma is framed for the murders that Johan commits. The story is told through two different types of media: an anime (Japanese for animation) and a manga. (Japanese for comic.)

Both the anime and manga tell the same story, but in different ways. One volume in the manga would probably be 3-5 episodes in the anime. The manga came first and is has the original story by Noaki Urasawa, and then there was an anime made based on that manga, but some of the major plot points and characters are different. This can make the experiences of watching the anime and reading the manga different.

Here's Noaki's Urasawa's Monster as an anime:

Here's what the original manga looks like: