A small Review of 20th Century Boys

A small Review of 20th Century Boys

  3:45 AM    Rinchan

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20th Century Boys is a manga created by Urusawa Naoki, which also creates the manga Monster. This two title were wrote alongside.

This manga is based on T-Rex's Song "20th Century Boys" and make many reference to rock music and the year 1960s to 1970s

The story itself is about young boys in year 1969, Kenji Endou, Otcho, Yoshitsune and Maruo, where they build a secret base in a field to share manga and stolen porn magazine and also listen a radio. Otcho then draws a symbol for the base that represent their friendship. After that the gang added two member, Yukiji and Donkey. The gang then make an imagine future scenario where the villain destroy the world and the boys stood up and fight. This scenario then labeled as The Book Of Prophecy.

The Symbol

The story then goes to late 1990s, where Kenji already grown up and taking care of his niece Kanna. His calm life then change since he met a large cult led by an only man called himself "Friend" (Tomodachi). This cult has plan to destroy the world on New Year's Eve 2000 (The Bloody New Year's Eve).

The events that later happens is suspected close with the detailed plan in the Book of Prophecy, Kenji than gather his old childhood friends, Otcho and Yoshitsune, while Donkey already committed suicide in the early part of the story.

Friend (Tomodachi)

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