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20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 2

Created by Naoki Urasawa
Published by VIZ Media LLC
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

A deluxe bind-up edition of Naoki Urasawa’s award-winning epic of doomsday cults, giant robots and a group of friends trying to save the world from destruction!

Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren’t for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns. This is the story of a group of boys who try to save the world.

Kenji races home and picks up the newspaper: sure enough, the mystery microbe has hit London. He thinks back over everything that has happened and what he and his childhood friends dug up, and is forced to face the unbelievable truth—someone really is putting into motion the story Kenji made up as a child, and people are dying because of it!

It turns out that the Friend's plan to destroy the world was dreamed up long ago by a group of boys playing “good guys against bad guys.” And now, the only one who can stop this diabolical plot from succeeding is the one who came up with it—Kenji!

Product Details

  • Publisher: VIZ Media LLC (January 10, 2019)
  • Length: 416 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781421599625

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"...[a] juggernaut of the manga world..."

“If you’re itching for adventure, and are craving something to instill your waning faith in humanity, I implore you. Let these works transport you. Fly Urasawa Air.
It’ll get you where you need to go."

“Urasawa’s works possess such a singular ability to transport readers halfway across the world almost effortlessly...”

– Polygon, Manga legend Naoki Urasawa: ‘A victory through violence is not a victory’

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