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20th Century Boys (manga)

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[ serialized in [Big Comic Spirits] ]

Related anime:
    20th Century Boys (live-action movie) (adaptation)
    21st Century Boys (manga) (sequel)

Alternative title:
20 Seiki Shonen (Japanese)
20世紀少年 (Japanese)
20세기 소년 (Korean)
Themes: historical
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Kenji and his friends start to notice a series of odd occurences related to their childhood. A mysterious cult-leader named "friend" is out to destroy the world, and it has something to do with Kenji's childhood memories.
User Ratings: 392 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 233 votes (sub:116, English:54, dub:25, ?:8, raw:5, Spa.sub:4, French:3, Spanish:3, German:3, Spa.dub:1, Italian:1, Dut.dub:1, raw:1, Ita.dub:1, Russian:1, Dutch:1, Ger.edit.dub:1, Fre.dub:1, Fre.sub:1, Dut.sub:1, edit.dub:1)
 Excellent: 74 votes (sub:35, English:21, dub:8, ?:5, German:2, Dutch:1, Italian:1, French:1)
 Very good: 29 votes (sub:14, English:13, Dut.dub:1, dub:1)
 Good: 7 votes (sub:2, English:2, ?:1, dub:1, Portuguese:1)
 Decent: 6 votes (English:3, dub:1, edit.dub:1, sub:1)
 So-so: 4 votes (sub:3, English:1)
 Not really good: 8 votes (sub:5, dub:2, English:1)
 Weak: 3 votes (sub:2, English:1)
 Bad: 5 votes (sub:2, Pol.sub:1, Ger.sub:1, English:1)
 Awful: 13 votes (sub:7, dub:4, edit.dub:1, Ger.sub:1)
 Worst ever: 10 votes (sub:7, dub:1, Spa.sub:1, English:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 656 users, rank: #78
Median rating: Masterpiece
Arithmetic mean: 8.666 (Excellent-.33), std. dev.: 2.5551, rank: #278
Weighted mean: 9.131 (Excellent+.13), rank: #64 (seen all: 9.24 / seen some: 8.99 / won't finish: 2.00)
Bayesian estimate: 9.118 (Excellent+.11), rank: #6
Number of tankoubon: 22
Number of pages: 220
Vintage:
1999 (Began Serialization)
2002-01-07 to 2007-07-11 (France)
2004-10 to 2007-10 (Spain)
Releases: We have 134
Links: We have 4
Trivia: We have 3
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Reviews:
    20th Century Boys GN 2

Graphic novel
    20th Century Boys (GN 7) 2010-02-16 (from $8.47)
    20th Century Boys (GN 1) 2009-02-17 (from $7.90)
    20th Century Boys (GN 2) 2009-04-21 (from $7.90)
    20th Century Boys (GN 3) 2009-06-16 (from $7.90)
    20th Century Boys (GN 4) 2009-08-18 (from $8.08)
    20th Century Boys (GN 5) 2009-10-20 (from $7.25)
    20th Century Boys (GN 6) 2009-12-15 (from $7.57)
Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 
Story & Art: Naoki Urasawa
 (none)
Japanese companies 
Publisher: Shogakukan, Inc.
English staff 
English cast 
Adaptation: Akemi Wegmuller
Design: Sam Elzway
Editing: Kit Fox
Touch-up & Lettering: Freeman Wong
 (none)
English companies 
Licensed by: Viz Media
French staff 
French cast 
 (none)
French companies 
Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 
 (none)
Spanish companies 
Italian staff 
Italian cast 
Translation: Roberto Pesci

Adaptation: Estudio Fenix
Lettering: Ram One
 (none)
Italian companies 
Pubblicato Da: Planet Manga
German staff 
German cast 
Lettering: Nicola Spano
 (none)
German companies 
Publisher: Planet Manga
Dutch staff 
Dutch companies 
(none)
 
Publisher: Glénat Benelux
Dutch cast 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 
Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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