Sunday, October 5, 2008

20th Century boys.

The logo created by Kenji which was used by Friend to do evil.

I believe some of you might have seen the trailer and must be wondering what is it, lol... 20th Century Boys, the upcoming trilogy to be screened in singapore. I personally loved this series of comic very much, and i do support some of the artist's other works as well. Naoki Urasawa, also the creator of the famous manga "Monster". Most of his works revolves around conspiracy theory and its very cleverly and well-weaved in terms of storyline and expressing method. I got to know this artist's works through this comic "Pluto" which is his current ongoing manga. This manga is basically a tribute to the famous Osamu Tezuka, using most of his creation in his series for this story. If you dunno Osamu Tezuka, maybe Astro boy-Atom will ring a bell? Yes, he is the creator of this character, and he was featured in Pluto as well.
The comic 20th Century Boys was very well received by fans in Japan, and i'm hoping the movie realisation is gonna be a good one. For people interested, maybe you can go read up the comic, because i believe the comic is gonna be a hit again, soon in singapore jus like how it was with deathnote. The whole series of comic runs 162 chapters with extra 16 chapters in 21st century boys. 20th century boys runs 18 vol while 21st century boys runs 2 vol, basically they are the same series of comics jus that the last 2 vol 21st century boys is a conclusion to the whole series with a different name. stay tuned~ :)

Coverart of 1st episode of Monster.

Coverart of 1st episode of Pluto.

Astroboy or Atom in Naoki Urasawa's version of Pluto.