Alternative TitlesEnglish: Old Boy Synonyms: Oldboy Japanese: オールドボーイ
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 8
Chapters: 79
Status: Finished
Published: 1996 to 1998
StatisticsScore: 7.771 (scored by 1139 users)
Ranked: #19012
Popularity: #1170
Members: 2,433
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SynopsisTen years ago, they took him in. He doesn't even know who. And for ten years, he has been confined in a private prison. He doesn't know why. For ten years, his only contact with the outside world has been a television set and the voices of his jail mates. In time, he lost himself. He changed...transformed himself into something else...something hard...something lethal. Suddenly, one day his incarceration ends, again without explanation. He is sedated, stuffed inside a trunk, and dumped in a park. When he awakes, he is free to reclaim what's left of his life...and what's left is revenge.
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BDL
19 of 32 people found this review helpful
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79 of 79 chapters read
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The objective of this review is to compare Old Boy manga with its Korean live-action adaptation.
I've watched Oldboy's live-action first, and so I decided to also read the manga.
The Korean Oldboy is a very violent film, but yet a cult, full of psychological elements and plot twists. In the film, Goto is also locked in a hotel room, a private prison. While in the manga he spends 10 years locked, in the film, he is locked for 15 years. In the live-action, Goto is accused of murdering his wife. But the murder occurred while he was imprisoned, so he wasn't guilty. In the manga, he isn't married and there is no murdering.
In both versions, Goto is released after 10 or 15 years and searches for the person who ordered to lock him, to know the reasons and take his revenge. In the Korean version, Goto doesn't ask the police for help because he was the prime suspect of murdering his wife. In the Japanese version, he doesn't ask the police for help because he thinks no one would believe him, and he had no proof of the existence of the private prison.
There are other minor differences in the beginning. But the differences grow and I soon realized that the manga has a totally "new" ending. I really liked the brilliant ending of the film. But the manga's conclusion, although still unexpected, it is well bellow the film.
Old Boy is perhaps the only case in which the live-action adaptation becomes better than the original manga.
But the manga is still a very good reading. It has almost the same psychological elements you find in the film. There are more characters and more new situations. So the plot is larger.
Goto has a similar colected personality in both versions. He is also a skilled fighter in both of them. The main difference is that Goto is much more violent in the live-action.
If you have enough free time, I recommend you to read the manga and watch the film. I don't now if you should choose them in a particular order, then feel free. read more
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Rasco
4 of 20 people found this review helpful
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62 of 79 chapters read
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8 |
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8 |
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8 |
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A man that has not felt the warmth of a women for ten Years! ;)
Gotou Kidnapped imprisoned in a small room, for ten years He was stuck in this small space, For what reasons? Eating the same thing every day for a decade; only thing he has is a T.V.
Not interest you yet. Like letting a bird out of its cage.
Not knowing who to trust, coming back to a world that has changed a spectacular story where a man must step up his game and find the one who imprisoned him, Revenge is on his mind, curiosity is on his mind. Now he plays detective to unravel this mystery.
See how Gotou has changed and what he finds out about his past. The reasons behind all this mess. Yet he stays cool, Calm and collected. See the Encounters he makes and the friends who have not forgotten him.
The manga Has good art takes you to a different atmosphere, its not too dark or to peaceful, the twist and turns are always a blast. The anticipation is heart breaking, and as we all know the cliff hangers to every volume makes you want to just keep on reading.
With this said I am looking forward to what this manga has to offer in the End, although a very old series still one of the best in my mind.
Fed up with the manga, check out the Korean movie adaption of old boy. A live action and well made movie.
Good ending bad ending the Story is what makes this amazing enough to check out, from what i can see.
After You read there is a also a good synopsis.
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The twisted atmosphere and the protagonists questioning their identities and trying to recall their pasts connect these two manga series together.
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Revenge stories about a wronged protagonist seeking vengeance against those who have done them wrong. Old Boy has the added twist of having to find out the reasoning behind the crimes committed against him while interacting with the antagonist throughout the series whereas Lady Snowblood is a comparatively straightforward search for the antagonists with the backstory being gradually revealed, but they have the same kind of feel at a number of points throughout the series. Aside from that they both deal with a kind of protagonist-centred grey morality that makes things interesting.
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