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20th Century Boys
The site's developed and maintained by Yongkiat K and is dedicated to one of the best Mangas ever written, 20th Century Boys. Please be informed that the site may contain some spoilers and assumed that you have read the series already. If not I'd like you to pick up and read the series before going further as it might spoil your fun.
20th Century Boys
or 20世紀少年 is a Japanese Manga written and drawn by one of the finest Japanese Maga artists,
Naoki Urasawa. Unlike other mangas out there which mainly aim toward kids with a lot of fighting scenes, 20th Century Boys
is packed with interesting plot and is suitable for older audience. It began serialization in the weekly magazine Big Comic Spirits in
1999, and there are 17 volumes to date (January, 2005).
The story compose of several parts. The first part, takes place in the late 1990s and second part in
the year 2014. The story of the first part involves a man name Kenji and his childhood friends. They
begin to notice strange events around them that somehow connect to their childhood memories. Some
one they know from the past is realizing their childhood ideas (bio weapons, mass destruction, and a
killer robot) to hurt people. The mysterious man also uses their symbol of friends to create a cult-like
organiztion and call himself “Friend”. No one know who this man really is. But for certain he’s set out
to destroy this world. Ultimately the horrible incident at the end of the year 2000. The outcome of that
event makes “Friend” the World’s hero and Kenji and his fellows criminals.
Around the fifth volume, the story fast forward to the year 2014, The protagonist of this part is a young
woman by the name Kanna (Kenji’s nephew). She’s determined to find out the truth behind the
events that occurred at the end of the year 2000. Will she be able to tell the World the truth? Will she
be able to find out who “Friend” really is?
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