11 volumes (Completed in Japan) 20 Seiki Shounen/Nijuseiki Shonen (20世紀少年) by Naoki Urasawa
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 twentieth 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. This is the story of a group of boys who try to save the world.
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Sequel: A two-volume 21st Century Boys manga was released in English but is not printed anymore.
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...
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...
The giant robot has been built, awaiting its great awakening, but the Friend’s identity has yet to be revealed. Time passes day by day, counting down to December 31, 2000…the...
In the middle of 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...
In 2014, Tokyo is under the complete control of the mysterious ruler known as the Friend. Kanna has chosen to step forward and confront the Friend in order to carry...
“My father is the Friend?” Kanna asks as she confronts the grim truth. With a heart full of despair, it will take everything for Kanna to continue the fight against...
Kanna, burdened by the fact that her mother Kiriko developed the bacteriological weapons used by the Friends on Bloody New Year’s Eve, ruminates over the ominous messages she left behind....
Evil has come. Justice has yet to arrive… While an unknown virus spreads and cripples the world with fear, the 2015 World Expo prepares to start, serving as a beacon...
Darkness covers the world as the forces of evil take control. The Friend has become the President of the World and rules with absolute power from behind the giant wall...
A man with a guitar arrives at a barrier town outside of Tokyo. Anyone who attempts to travel through the town without a pass is arrested and murdered. As the...
There once was a kid who imagined the end of the world. It was all a child’s game—until it became terribly real! The Friend is carrying out his plan to...