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20th Century Boys, Volume Five

Harry Edmundson-Cornell — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:00:34 +0000

20th Century Boys, Volume Five" title="20th Century Boys, Volume Five" style="float:left;" />This is an important volume, deserving of a particularly long write-up. You’ve been warned. This volume starts the conclusion of Kenji’s story, and introduces the next part of this tale – Kanna’s story, which takes… [more]

20th Century Boys Volume Four

Harry Edmundson-Cornell — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 12:00:43 +0000

20th Century Boys Volume Four" title="20th Century Boys Volume Four" style="float:left;" />This is an exciting volume. A lot of it focuses on Shogun being generally badass. Shogun acts rather like a vigilante in this volume. He’s continually saving abused women from Thai gangsters. At first this… [more]

20th Century Boys Volume Three

Harry Edmundson-Cornell — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:00:01 +0000

20th Century Boys Volume Three" title="20th Century Boys Volume Three" style="float:left;" />This is definitely the best volume of the series so far. Now that’s almost a false statement in a series like this, because this volume’s quality is utterly dependent on the two prior. Without their… [more]

20th Century Boys Volume Two

Harry Edmundson-Cornell — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:00:42 +0000

20th Century Boys Volume Two" title="20th Century Boys Volume Two" style="float:left;" />Wow. Naoki Urasawa really gets this series going early. It’s hard to talk about the volume over all without sounding repetitive and it’s hard to resist summarizing the plot. Given that the whole reason behind… [more]

20th Century Boys Volume One

Harry Edmundson-Cornell — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:00:51 +0000

20th Century Boys Volume One" title="20th Century Boys Volume One" style="float:left;" />The last volume of Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys I read was volume 22. The series only lasts two more volumes – 21st Century Boys Volume One and Two. These articles cover my attempted reread… [more]

On Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys: Friends

Colin Smith — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 12:00:48 +0000

20th Century Boys: Friends" title="On Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys: Friends" style="float:left;" />When I first read Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys: Friends, I stopped after the initial six pages and put the book away. For they were so perfect in themselves, so wonderfully concise and clever and moving,… [more]