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20th Century Boys is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was originally serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1999 to 2006, with the 249 chapters published into 22 tankōbon volumes. A 16-chapter continuation, titled 21st Century Boys, ran in the same magazine from 2006 to 2007 and was gathered into two tankōbon volumes. The series follows Kenji Endo…
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source Hi Hive friends, I don't usually watch anime, it's not that I don't like them, it's just that I haven't found one that catches my attention. I mostly watch or read by recommendations from friends or acquaintances, and the same goes for this manga, I think it's not very well known but my friend recommended it to me with a lot of eagerness. "20th Century Boy" begins with one of the main characters of our story…More
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The best thing about this manga is how it’s in constant thrill mode. Not a single chapter where something interesting is not happening and it has enough characters, side stories, and mysteries, to fill a whooping amount of 249 chapters. This is a major difference compared to Monster, Urasawa’s other famous work, which was much simpler and for the same reason harder to keep you engaged. 20th century boys has ten time…More
I finally got around to reading the second volume of 20th Century Boys and wow it just keeps getting better. Check out my review on the first volume for the story, but the gist is basically theres a cult going around and the main character is somehow connected. He remembers it has something to do with his childhood so hes collecting all of his friends together to try to figure it out. He slowly remembers more people…More
I have been reading a lot more manga than I ever have before recently and I was looking for recommendations on various websites which almost all told me to check out 20th century boys by Naoki Urasawa. The story itself is a bit about the coming of age of a group of boys and their runnings into a cult called The Friend. It follows main character Kenji as he slowly learns more about the cult through people ending up d…More