Comments on: 20th Century Boys 6

By: Connie

Connie — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:08:56 +0000

Ooh, nice. Tricky to pull off, but I’d love to see it happen. If it can be done, it would be done here, somehow.

By: Sara K.

Sara K. — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:20:35 +0000

If Kenji gets slaughtered AND is depicted as being the masterminding villain behind all of the atrocities, it would be character assassination in both senses.

By: Connie

Connie — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:31:05 +0000

I do like that about the missing battle. I have no idea what happened to Shogun, Kenji, and the rest of the resistance, and I am trying to decide how likely it was that Kenji made it. On one hand, it seems like this series wouldn’t have any problems sacrificing a former main character for the greater good, but on the other hand, this is a manga, and they reference the fact that the former hero in the manga artist’s work turns out to be the villain. I got my hopes up a little that it was somehow an allusion to Kenji, only because I would love to see the story bend over backwards and make that happen.

By: Sara K.

Sara K. — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:41:03 +0000

“I’m a little leery that a manga artist seems to be stepping in as a regular character.”

At least in the movies, he doesn’t do that much. Mostly he gives the character he escapes with somebody to talk to.

I realize that one of the good things about leaving that hole in the middle of Volume 5 is that you don’t know who is going to return. In the movies, you know who got out in one piece and probably will come back, but in the manga, anybody might (or might not) make a comeback.