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<blockquote data-quote="Mustafar Reginald" data-source="post: 32628" data-attributes="member: 113"><p>Outside of Shone action series, I'd highly recommend 20th Century Boys/21st Century Boys (21st Century Boys being the conclusion of 20th Century Boys). It's my favourite manga that's never been adapted into an anime, by one of my favourite mangaka Naoki Urasawa (of Monster fame, which is better than 20th Century Boys but it has an anime so shut up). It's been about a decade since I've read it, but it's still one of my favourites.</p><p></p><p>I guess the best way to explain the series is, have you ever play heroes & villains with your friends. Every come up with storylines about thwarting world domination attempts? Well, Kenji and his friends did when they were kids, and now a regular boring convenience store worker adult Kenji finds himself perhaps tasked with just that. As after the suicide of one of his childhood friends, he discovers a mysterious cult lead by someone known only as "Friend" and it seems that the Cult might have origins dating back to his childhood.</p><p></p><p>20th Century Boys is massive mystery thriller spanning decades long, with plenty of great inter-connected narrative twists and turns and plotlines. Despite being mostly grounded in realism, it has some of the most insane hype payoffs when they get there. I do think the series is at it's strongest in the first two-thirds of the series (or the first half counting 21st Century Boys), and kinda goes downhill at the end, but I do think the whole thing is worth reading, the last chapter is fantastic and the series as a whole has the best mystery I've ever seen.</p><p></p><p>Also, music's a big part of the series identity, so much so that Naoki Urasawa even wrote & performed a song for it. That's right, this is a manga with an actual OST for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mustafar Reginald, post: 32628, member: 113"] Outside of Shone action series, I'd highly recommend 20th Century Boys/21st Century Boys (21st Century Boys being the conclusion of 20th Century Boys). It's my favourite manga that's never been adapted into an anime, by one of my favourite mangaka Naoki Urasawa (of Monster fame, which is better than 20th Century Boys but it has an anime so shut up). It's been about a decade since I've read it, but it's still one of my favourites. I guess the best way to explain the series is, have you ever play heroes & villains with your friends. Every come up with storylines about thwarting world domination attempts? Well, Kenji and his friends did when they were kids, and now a regular boring convenience store worker adult Kenji finds himself perhaps tasked with just that. As after the suicide of one of his childhood friends, he discovers a mysterious cult lead by someone known only as "Friend" and it seems that the Cult might have origins dating back to his childhood. 20th Century Boys is massive mystery thriller spanning decades long, with plenty of great inter-connected narrative twists and turns and plotlines. Despite being mostly grounded in realism, it has some of the most insane hype payoffs when they get there. I do think the series is at it's strongest in the first two-thirds of the series (or the first half counting 21st Century Boys), and kinda goes downhill at the end, but I do think the whole thing is worth reading, the last chapter is fantastic and the series as a whole has the best mystery I've ever seen. Also, music's a big part of the series identity, so much so that Naoki Urasawa even wrote & performed a song for it. That's right, this is a manga with an actual OST for it. [/QUOTE]
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