Reviews

20th century boys is very different for all I ever saw, you have a couple of guys living in a "adult world", but is the type of a children mind, the capacity of the "friend" persuade people is very high, but in fact, the people are easiest persuaded, like ONU, the first minister of Japan. The world is to idiot, the people don't think and follow a crazy man who didn't show his face, who convinced them just making a couple of magic tricks.
The minority part of people, who have a behavior like a real adult, it's the "resistance?" part of that world, and we have the main characters of the history fighting the "friend", they think like a real "adult" they try to fight like a real "adult, but they never won.
So, in the end of history we have this part of the real "adult" making a change, they start to act like adult of the mind of children, and the "friend" start losing the war. So, what's the deal of that??

I think the manga 20th century boys it's a tribute to the manga industry, who made part of the life of much of the children, mostly in Japan. The good guys of history just starting won the fight when they enter in play, like a prank evening in a Sunday.
We have many "Easter eggs" of the other titles, like the "master" who trains Ochiai, like the mostly part of the action histories, always have a mysterious master who trains the good guy.
I recommend the history, it's very different, but it's made incredible good, you start to believe, "that" world it's possible, can happen, you enter in that crazy "prank evening", and you going to leave very satisfied.