nijyusseiki shōnen

japanese title: 20世紀少年
english title: 20th century boys

i gave it a 3.5/5

have known this manga title for quite some time already, but only started with the live-action version, a couple of weeks ago... was a little stressed out to blog about anything lately, and guess that explains the delay of this review~ ( ･ｪ･)


title intro

the story tells about kenji, currently a struggling konbini owner... along came a mysterious cult with has everything to do with kenji's past; ranging from its cult emblem to the group's ingenious plan to wipe out the human race... with some help from his childhood friends, the protagonist heads out in search of the truth, but what awaits might be just child's play, a deadly one... (O_O；)


kenji-kun


cult emblem? what does it means?


tomodachi...

the movie splits itself into a few time periods... the current, flashback during kenji's childhood and the near future~ the casts were pretty okay and although the story wasn't much believable as it could be, it still provides much suspense and entertainment value to the audience


childhood favourite pastimes: defending the 'secret base'


tomodachi as a kid?


kanna, child and future version


takenate naoto cameos... with little screentime

as an overall, the movie is not bad at all... as how the director might put it, the story has not concluded and the mystery is still in the dark, prompting us to follow the sequel which should be already in play at cinemas in japan

not having enuff of the movie alone, got the manga from my sis not too long later... and that lead to the review of the serialized manga as well... phew' this is gonna be one heck of a long post! ..more pics as well

japanese title: 20世紀少年 / 21世紀少年
english title: 20th century boys / 21st century boys

i gave it a 3/5


first volume cover


intro

21st century boys? that's actually the final two volume of the manga... weird as it may seems, that's where the conclusion will be~ the manga took 8 years for the completion, and it took me 1 days+ to complete the whole series (24 volumes in total), could have completed it sooner but it was dragged on due to work and etc...


kenji and co


tomodachi or hatorri?...


a modified robot of doom

reading the manga reveals much more compared to the live-action, which ended around volume 5-6... and the rest of the story lies in the future and further, in the third year of tomodachi's era, kanna joined in as the few main characters to battle the supreme tomodachi

as with the first parts of the manga, more mysteries were finally uncovered but then twist of events just happens once too often, complicating the whole story~ as for me, i was pretty much hooked up til the end of it, but do find it ridiculous and quite unbearable at times and of course, the ending of rather unsatisfying （￣～￣;）


mini tomodachis? or someone else?

and here, some spoilers: ▽


the revelation... identity of tomodachi#2


wtf? who's this, you asked? it's sadakiyo from tomodachi land

anyway, will still be awaiting for the live-action sequel once it's out, hopefully it will not disappoint

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