A review by boojiboy7
20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 10 by Akemi Wegmüller, Takashi Nagasaki, Naoki Urasawa

5.0

Approximately 4500 pages into this thing, and I'm going to have to wait like a month to finish it out, but it's already been so worth it. So much stuff to think about here. Generational guilt, learning to get over that you aren't who you dreamed you'd be, watching the kids you knew go all their own ways as adults, watching kids throw off where they came from to be what they want, how our memories fail us and are limited by our perspective at the time. Just so much stuff, but never bogged down in it. Just willing to let it be there on its own.

There's a weird sorta side plot in the last few volumes about a Catholic Church in Kabukicho that seems a little out of place, but in thinking about it now, it's easy to see how the Catholic idea of Confession ties into this, that telling a priest what you've done can get you absolved of your sins. It doesn't work that way for anyone in the book, as they have to deal with their lives by just moving forward and dealing with it, but they are still haunted by their past actions, their childhoods, their family, and so on. There's no confessing their way out of it.

I mean, there's also a resurrection, so. You know.

Argh, it's so good. I don't know how I'm going to deal with waiting.