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Welcome back everybody! We are happy to present to you another great review from The Comic Panel! This episode is the first review of our new theme of Cults! The book we are reviewing is 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa (Monster, Pluto).
20th Century Boys is a comic about a group of friends and their time as adults in a changing Japan interspersed with scenes from their childhood in the 1970s. Little did they know that as kids when they created a secret base to hide out and read manga, peruse inappropriate magazines and just goof off with a radio that they were planting the seeds for a terrifying future. The main character Kenji Endo is too caught up in taking care of his mother, his abandoned niece Kanna and their struggling convenience store. However Kenji can’t help but notice a familiar symbol popping up around the same place as mysterious disappearances. The friends from childhood he still keeps in touch with try to brush the weird coincidences aside but when one friend jumps to his death and leaves behind an ominous message about the symbol they’re forced to take notice. Soon it becomes apparent that the symbol, a gloved hand with an eyeball behind it, has been co-opted by a potentially cultish group of people.
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