This is the story of a gang of boys who try to save the world! As boys, Kenji and his friends came up with a bunch of stories about an evil organization bent on world destruction. As adults, someone is now turning their fantasies into reality!
Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for T+ audiences. Will 2015 bring an end to
human history?! An urgent but mysterious messsage left by her mother Kiriko in
2002 finally reaches Kanna. But where is Kiriko, who developed the germ warfare
weapons used on Bloody New Year's Eve, and what is she doing now? Memories of
New Years past flood the minds of Kenji's friends and family. Will
Yoshitsune's clandestine actions eventually prove fruitful, or are they
doomed to repeat the tragedies of the year 2000?Meanwhile, Otcho and Kakuta are
busily trying to track down Kiriko's former colleague, Dr. Yamane.
Unexpectedly, their search leads them to the very neighborhood that Otcho,
Kenji, Maruo and the rest of their childhood pals grew up in. Can a visit to
their old school shed new light on a bizarre incident that happened when they
were all in the sixth grade?
Author Biography
Naoki Urasawa's career as a manga artist spans more than twenty years and has
firmly established him as one of the true manga masters of Japan. Born in Tokyo
in 1960, Urasawa debuted with BETA! in 1983 and hasn't stopped his impressive
output since. Well-versed in a variety of genres, Urasawa's oeuvre encompasses
a multitude of different subjects, such as a romantic comedy (Yawara!
A Fashionable Judo Girl), a suspenseful human drama about a former mercenary
(Pineapple ARMY; story by Kazuya Kudo), a captivating psychological suspense
story (Monster), a sci-fi adventure manga (20th Century Boys), and a modern
reinterpretation of the work of the God of Manga, Osamu Tezuka (Pluto: Urasawa x
Tezuka; co-authored with Takashi Nagasaki, supervised by Macoto Tezka, and with
the cooperation of Tezuka Productions). Many of his books have spawned popular
animated and live-action TV programs and films, and 2008 saw the theatrical
release of the first of three live-action Japanese films based on 20th Century
Boys. No stranger to accolades and awards, Urasawa is a three-time recipient of
the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award, a two-time recipient of the Osamu Tezuka
Cultural Prize, and has received the Kodansha Manga Award. Similarly, Monster
has been nominated three times for the Eisner Award in America. Urasawa has also
become involved in the world of academia, and in 2008 accepted a guest teaching
post at Nagoya Zokei University, where he teaches courses in, of
course, manga.