Growing older is pretty rough and Kenji is sorting out simply how exhausting it will be as life starts sporting down on him. On high of making an attempt to create ends meet running a convenience store, he must look after the niece that his missing sister left in his care. recollections of youth create it easier, till those recollections come to haunt you.
Kenji and his recent friends are slowly being drawn into a mysterious conspiracy that would threaten the planet. Who is that the mysterious `friend`, and the way will he tie into Kenji`s youth? Why are there disappearances and deaths tied into Ochanomizu University? The friend`s recollections hold the keys to the puzzle, however years between cloud the clues.
The strange occurances and therefore the reach of the `friend` conspiracy grow by the day. it'll all culminate on New Year`s Eve 2000. can Kenji and therefore the remainder of the cluster be able to place along the puzzle and save the world?
By Naoki Urasawa (20th Century Boys)
Characters
Main Characters
Kenji Endo
The central protagonist of the primary half the story, that revolves around his childhood within the '60s to the current day. he's typically laid-back, and seems to be heavily curious about Rock 'n' Roll. He, his relatives, and friends play crucial roles because the plot unfolds. He disappears once the events of the "Bloody New Year's Eve", however is rumored to still be alive.
Kanna Endo
Kenji's niece, she is the protagonist for the events within the aftermath of the "Bloody New Year's Eve". She appears to possess supernatural skills from that the supply is unknown, though hinted by the second Friend in Chapter 221 to be the results of a secret medication given to Kiriko when she was still carrying Kanna. including her charisma, Kanna makes an in a position leader. She leads a rebel faction against "Friend" beneath the moniker, "Ice Queen".
Otcho
Kenji's childhood friend and benefactor, he generally is observed as "Shogun". he's in prime physical form, and has escaped sure death over and over. Originally believed to be Friend, it's been revealed that he visited receive enlightenment and coaching from a monk once experiencing the pain of the loss of his son, and was merely living in Asia's seedy underground. His real name is Choji Ochiai.
Friend
An enigmatic character who attracts on the childhood ideas of Kenji and his friends to commit acts of terrorism to realize power. Friend pretended within the New Year's Eve of 2000 to own saved the planet from a scourge of hemorrhagic fever (similar to Ebola). That, adding to his distinctive charisma, created him the political leader of Japan along with his "Friendship Party", and an excellent ethical figure of the twenty first century. He reworked Japan during a retro vogue, presumably to evoke nostalgia of the most characters' childhoods. His motives stay unclear, however it's known that he's somehow concerned with Kanna and her mother Kiriko. His Identity was revealed in "21st Century Boys."
Yoshitsune
Kenji's childhood friend who once created the error of ordering one thousand printer cartridges when he solely required four. He was one in every of Kenji's friends who answered the decision to fight back with him on the Bloody New Years Eve. within the year 2014 he's the leader of an underground organisation bent on taking down Friend.
God
God is an recent homeless man who is bent on the come of Tenpin Bowling as a serious sport in Japan. God has the facility of foresight and might see what's going to happen before it involves pass. God was the one who warned Kenji and told him of his future. Later within the series, God becomes extraordinarily made by using his foresight to play the stock market. along with his newfound wealth, he became the primary Japanese civilian to travel into area.
Yukiji Setoguchi
Kenji's solely feminine childhood friend. throughout Kenji's college years, Yukiji was a high toned tomboy, whereas within the manga's adult years Yukiji is portrayed as a rather skilled female girl. She is reunited with Kenji functioning at an airport in Tokyo as a customs official, typically comically mistaken for a narc, in conjunction with a drug sniffing dog named Blue 3 (pronounced "Buru Surii" a Japanese pun on the name Bruce Lee). Yukiji too conjointly assists Kenji within the event of the Bloody New Year's Eve. Since Yukiji has acted as Kanna's guardian replacing Kenji once his mysterious death/disappearance. within the third of Era of Friend she has opened a dojo, teaching an outsized quantity of neighbourhood kids Judo as she once learnt as a baby.
