The Nameless Monster’s Heavy Freedom — An LMT Contrast with Little My’s Small Courage —

This paper contrasts Johan Liebert, the “nameless monster” in Naoki Urasawa’s MONSTER, with Little My from Tove Jansson’s Moomin series through the lens of Load Minimization Theory (LMT). While Little My embodies light, respectful Re-tagging and Tier-1 stability with her small courage, Johan represents the heavy cost of abandoning one’s name — a quiet yet profound manifestation of the Third Type of Nihilism. By analyzing key utterances and scenes alongside the Czech picture book The Nameless Monster, this study reveals how the pursuit of perfect freedom without a name collapses the Wavy Equal and leads to a deep deficit of An-soku.