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A review by orionmissing
Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Vol. 1: Friends by Naoki Urasawa
4.0
Rating:4/5
I enjoyed this way more than I initially expected to. I assumed that it was going to be masterfully crafted and that the characters would be fully fleshed out, but I did not think the subject matter was going to work for me.
And I was partially right. Certain aspects of this story remind me of The Goonies (1985), The Sandlot (1993), and Stand By Me (1986). All of those movies have a very similar aesthetic and tone of boys just being boys on an adventure together...and I don't like any of those movies. They bore me.
However, what I did not realize was that in this manga that childhood story would be told in flashbacks, and that the present day situation would include a cult conspiracy and possible robot invasion. Bodies are being drained of blood, the police are unable to locate missing persons, and people everywhere are acting strange all because of "their friend".
I don't know when I'll get my hands on volume 2, but I definitely want to see what happens next.
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I enjoyed this way more than I initially expected to. I assumed that it was going to be masterfully crafted and that the characters would be fully fleshed out, but I did not think the subject matter was going to work for me.
And I was partially right. Certain aspects of this story remind me of The Goonies (1985), The Sandlot (1993), and Stand By Me (1986). All of those movies have a very similar aesthetic and tone of boys just being boys on an adventure together...and I don't like any of those movies. They bore me.
However, what I did not realize was that in this manga that childhood story would be told in flashbacks, and that the present day situation would include a cult conspiracy and possible robot invasion. Bodies are being drained of blood, the police are unable to locate missing persons, and people everywhere are acting strange all because of "their friend".
I don't know when I'll get my hands on volume 2, but I definitely want to see what happens next.
check out more from me here:
http://nerdificationreviews.com/