by Naoki Urasawa · Comic · ISBN 9781591169222
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«20th Century Boys» is the first volume of Naoki Urasawa's science fiction and mystery manga, published by Viz Media in paperback (216 pages, in English).
Kenji, a failed rock musician, sees his memories return when a childhood friend commits suicide and clues point to a cult involved in murders. In 1969 some children created a symbol; in 1997 that symbol reappears before an imminent catastrophe. Kenji gathers his old friends to uncover the truth and save the world.
This is volume 1 of the series «20th Century Boys», in a Viz Signature edition adapted into English by Akemi Wegmüller.
Recommended for older teenagers and for readers of science fiction and mystery manga.
Naoki Urasawa is a Japanese manga artist and musician. He has been drawing manga since he was four years old, and for most of his professional career has created two series simultaneously. The stories to many of these were co-written in collaboration with his former editor, Takashi Nagasaki. Urasawa has been called one of the artists that changed the history of manga and has won numerous awards, including the Shogakukan Manga Award three times, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize twice, and the Kodansha Manga Award once. South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho called him "the greatest storyteller of our time", while Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz proclaimed Urasawa to be a national treasure in Japan. By December 2021, his various works had over 140 million copies in circulation worldwide, making him one of the best-selling authors of all time.
