20th Century Boys: the Perfect Edition, Vol. 2
VIZ Media LLC · Paperback · December 18, 2018
20th Century Boys: the Perfect Edition, Vol.
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- Who it’s for
- Serious, serialized manga with the neat pressure of a mystery and the openness of a long.
- Genres
- Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Comics, Mecha Manga, Crime & Mystery Comics
- Published
- VIZ Media LLC, December 18, 2018
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A deluxe bind-up edition of Naoki Urasawa’s award-winning epic of doomsday cults, giant robots and a group of friends trying to save the world from destruction! Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren’t for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns.
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This is the story of a group of boys who try to save the world. With killer bacteria attacks on San Francisco and London underway, the plot to destroy the world that Kenji imagined as a boy is playing out in real life through the actions of the Friend. What will happen next? Only one person knows. Only one person can save the world, and that person is Kenji. Firing up his guitar and making up his mind to stand up, Kenji heads to the concert hall where the Friend awaits…
Why It Hooks
Serious, serialized manga with the neat pressure of a mystery and the openness of a long.
Come here for
- prestige-minded manga framing
- sustained, page-turning mystery momentum
Expect
- crime-and-mystery registers
- assignment-friendly, volume-by-volume pacing
Where it sits
| Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Comics | 78% |
|---|---|
| Crime & Mystery Comics | 53% |
| Mecha Manga | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Crime & Mystery Comics
- General Manga
- Tie-In Comics
- Authors
- Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki, Akemi Wegmüller
- Publisher
- VIZ Media LLC
- Published
- December 18, 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Crime & Mystery Comics