Briefly about 20TH CENTURY BOYS manga:
We had a chance to look at the film’s plot and see how it evolved over the years, but it was never really considered. Even the official synopsis doesn’t really tell you anything. In my opinion, it’s not the plot that’s important in this manga, it’s the characters themselves. The epic isn’t about the story itself, which isn’t exactly epic in any way, but about the characters themselves. It’s all about the characters themselves. And this is not a bad thing, it is even very good.
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The characters in Urusawa Naoki’s characters are very colorful, and almost all of them. And there’s a whole zoo of them, all kinds to suit every taste. The most interesting thing is that all the main characters (and there are almost a dozen of them) givening practically equal time, thus not offending anyone. In the manga, the main characters have the same amount of time, and there are no hard feelings, so it is imperative that the writing itself be seen and read. It is simply impossible to describe and convey in words.
Boys in short shorts playing on a secret base. Summer, the era of Seva, the anticipation of some magnificent future. Children’s belief in the triumph of science, the exhibition in Osaka, where everyone wants to go… And which loses with a bang to a fresh story about a ghost in the House of the Hanged Man. Children who grow into adults, children’s games that don’t end until children grow up. A doctor who doesn’t understand that the numbers of people killing by his virus aren’t just numbers in statistics. A woman who wants to be the Holy Mother, goes over her head to do so, and tells her enemy, “And if you had married Kenji, you could have been the Empress of Evil.” The abused child plotting the apocalypse.
There aren’t really any bad ones here, and perhaps not to say that there are definitely good ones. All have at one time or another let their guard down, chickened out, fled-but then they came back. There are a lot of characters, each is a personality, and each personality is vivid. Often contradictory, many we observe since childhood. But everyone has a story behind him, and the author tells one after another, like a Japanese Scheherazade. Sometimes he goes overboard with fabulousness. But you don’t notice that, swallowing story after story, fate after fate, which are woven into the manga. You read it for two days, and then sit after the finale and want more and more.
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The author is so cool in his presentation of the characters’ story. He spoils you abundantly with flashbacks and flash forwards that you don’t even pay attention to the sometimes glaring holes in the story by the middle of the manga. Those holes aren’t too big, especially when the action began to affect not just individual Japan. But the rest of the world as well. It would have been better if there were no holes and the author had ended the narrative in 2015, turning out any ending he wanted.
If the author had been able to find some balance between the characters’ stories and the story itself. Then it would, without any doubt, would have been a manga on the verge of a masterpiece. But alas, high start in the beginning, hyper acceleration in the middle, waiting for the unreal climax to read 2/3 of the manga. And then… But even so, the manga is still excellent and recommended for everyone to read.
