20th Century Boys: the Perfect Edition, Vol. 4
VIZ Media LLC · Paperback · June 18, 2019
20th Century Boys: the Perfect Edition, Vol.
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- Who it’s for
- A tense mix of doomsday cults, giant robots, and a mystery stretching across decades.
- Themes
- Threat of global destruction, Friendship and collective action, Terror and false peace
- Genres
- Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Comics, Crime & Mystery Comics, Mecha Manga
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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. In the middle of the Tokyo Bay, a man known as Shogun has escaped from Umihotaru Prison, a place feared by criminals and convicts as an inescapable iron fort, in order to save the world. He heads off to Tokyo, the city where the girl known as “the Last Hope” lives. But the streets of Tokyo are in turmoil after a murder in Chinatown triggers a chain reaction of terror. The time has come for the false peace created by the Friend to be exposed. What is the truth behind the historic disaster on the last day of 20th century?
Signals of Disaster
A tense mix of doomsday cults, giant robots, and a mystery stretching across decades.
Come here for
- Apocalyptic stakes with a crime-and-mystery edge
- A long-running story of friends facing a world-sized threat
Expect
- A serious, immersive blend of conspiracy and science fiction
- A deluxe bind-up edition of Urasawa’s epic
Where it sits
| Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Comics | 71% |
|---|---|
| Mecha Manga | 38% |
| Crime & Mystery Comics | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Crime & Mystery Comics
- General Manga
- Tie-In Comics
- Authors
- Naoki Urasawa
- Publisher
- VIZ Media LLC
- Published
- June 18, 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Threat of global destruction · Friendship and collective action · Terror and false peace
- Reading lane
- Crime & Mystery Comics