20th Century Boys occurs as Sci-fi/Mystery manga created by Naoki Urasawa.

Synopsis

Growing older is jolly rough & Kenji is searching for retired upright how else strong it may be when life starts wearing down in him. inside top of trying to produce ceases meet heading the convenience store he has to care for the niece that his missing sister left in his care. Memories of youth produce it more comfortable, until people memories came back to stamping ground we.

Kenji & his old friends come slowly existence drawn into the mysterious conspiracy that can threaten the world. World health organization is the mysterious "Friend" you bet does he tie into Kenji's youth? How come come there disappearances & deaths attached into Ochanomizu University? Their memories hang on to a keys to the puzzle, however period & age own clouded their minds.

A unknown occurrences & a email of the "Friend" conspiracy develop per diem. It might completely culminate in Just released Season's Eve 2000. May Kenji & a others exist as suspire to together a puzzle & save the world?

Timeline

A story of 20th Century Boys is told around foursome different period arcs: a Sixty's & Lxx's, a late Ninety's, a month 2014, & 3F, or even a Third Month of the Friend Era.

60's to 70's
A tale truly begins when you took Kenji's childhood years, in the late Sixty's to early Seventy's. A cases that occur in text come mostly seen across flashbacks, however many days it has been visited to expand on certain points in the todays plot line. At one point possibly, many characters visit this point eventually through the utilize of Friend's virtual reality program!

Late 90's
A beginning of a series requires place in the period of the late 1990's, within which Kenji occurs as convenience store creator, searching for solace in his childhood risky venture. He has to choose care of his niece, Kanna, world health organization his older sister left by having him a few period ago. He too has to require care of his old mother, world health organization constantly nags him of what he experienced done to their personal package store.

He has there is no noesis of the dark conspiracy as much as him, until he learns that Donkey, an old friend of his, recently committed suicide. He begins to delve deep to figure out Donkey's sudden dying, while he learns of the big cult organization, under the mysterious human single called "Friend. As well, he learns that this cult seeks to destroy the world on New Year's Eve of 2000. Realizing that this madman is drawing his plan from a story he and his old friends came up, he decides to round them all up and figure out this mess. Kenji realizes that his only hope is to find the "Book of Prophecy", where he wrote scenarios in which he and his friends would save the day.

However, he is already under the watchful eye of Friend, Kenji having shown himself to Friend during the cult's meeting. It becomes evident later that Friend is also interested in Kanna, who possesses latent powers. He sends several members to kidnap her, but are unsuccessful, as Kenji returns to the store, with an old notebook in his hand... Kenji's family must now live in secrecy in order to escape Friend's grasp.

It is now the year 2000. Otcho, another old friend, becomes the main focus for some time. Living in Bangkok, he is being hunted down by a local drug lord, when he receives a call from Kenji, who has not spoken to in years. When he first explains of his plan to save the world, Otcho is at first skeptical, but later agrees to return to Japan.

When Otcho returns, he finds out that Kenji is a wanted terrorist. He leads Otcho to an unused subway station, where he and his supporters have been staying for some time. They begin to formulate a plan to stop the end of the world. Based on the Book of Prophecy, they learn that an unnamed building must explode to herald the beginning of the end. Before Otcho can find it on time, the Japanese Parliament Building explodes...

On December 31st, 2000, as Tokyo begins to sleep, a giant robot appears and begins rampaging across the city, spreading the lethal virus which has been plaguing the world over the past few years. Kenji and his crew take off and head to the machine, unsure of whether they'll be able to stop it, but knowing full well they are the world's last hope...

2014
Enter the year 2014. Mankind has overcome its greatest obstacle. Kanna is now 17, is living in Tokyo. As the story progresses, the past is revealed: Friend is alive and well. Keeping up with Kenji's mission, Kanna decides to take the stand and take down Friend. Kenji's old friends begin reappearing to aid her in her quest. But when they begin their plan, they find that Friend might still have a card up his sleeve. With the revelation of the New Book of Prophecy, Kanna must now stop the inevitable before it is too late...

3FE
The series jumps even further into the future, where Friend is now the President of the World, after resurrecting himself from the dead, and halting the assassination of the Pope. Sanae and Katsuo are two children who get caught up in the mess when Katsuo has been sheltering Otcho! Both kids must now search for Kanna, AKA The Ice Queen, and warn her of an impending danger. All the while, on the outskirts of the city, a biker stops in front of a checkpoint, with a guitar on his back, and a familiar face...

Characters
Endō Kenji [遠藤健児]
The central protagonist of the first half of the story, which revolves around his childhood in the 60's to the present day. He is generally laid-back, and appears to be heavily interested in Rock 'n' Roll. He, his relatives, and friends play crucial roles as the plot unfolds. He disappears after the events of the "Bloody Up to date Season's Eve", but is rumored to still be alive. A man with a striking resemblance to Kenji, singing his songs on an old guitar has recently appeared in later volumes, but it has not been confirmed if this man is Kenji.

Endō Kanna [遠藤カンナ]
Kenji's niece, she serves as the protagonist for the events in the aftermath of the "Bloody Just released Month's Eve". She seems to possess supernatural abilities from which the source is unknown, coupled with her charisma she makes an able leader. She leads a rebel faction against "Friend" under the moniker, "Ice Queen". It is later revealed that her father is Friend, whom she has also received her special powers.

Otcho [オッチョ]
Kenji's childhood friend and benefactor, he typically is referred to as "Shōgun". He is in prime physical shape, and has escaped certain death many times. Originally believed to be Friend, it has been revealed that he was simply living in Asia's seedy underground after his business collapsed. Later in the story he serves as a protectorate for Kanna and her mission. His real name is Chōshi Ochiai.

Friend [ともだち]
The antagonist of the story, his identity remains largely unknown. He draws on the childhood ideas of Kenji and his friends, to commit acts of terrorism to gain power. He will later impose himself as a supreme ruler and retrograde modern Japan into the 60's. His motives remain unclear, but it is known that he is somehow involved with Kanna and her mother Kiriko.