20th Century Boys

Every chapter of this graphic serial novel is a clincher. I glue my eyes on the monitor, read intently, and my mind doesn't stop thinking: "what's next, what's next?" Aside from the amazing story, the major reasons for loving 20th Century Boys are:

1. The art. It's superb. They don't have big glossy "orbs" for eyes, they don't have the weird spikey hair. Naoki Urasawa strived for the art to be as real as possible. The architecture in his created world is just stunning to the tiniest detail.

2. The storytelling. It's how the plot is revealed that grabs me. The story can be original, but when it's told in a crappy way, the story is still crappy. But the plot is just amazing. The scenes jump from present to the past, to the future. Sometimes a few years back, sometimes so far into the future, so that everything you read always a surprise.

3. The characters. A story is not a story without a set of well thought-out characters. Now, for a story that involves 48 years of events, having a large set of characters is inevitable. But everyone is well made, that not one of them is boring: a teenager leader of two mafias, the lazy student who finds the truth while doing her term paper, the kid loser who grows to be a captain of a rebellion faction, the store owner who sings rock with his broom upstairs, the priest with the tatoos.

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A great Manga,maybe even the best i have ever read.
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